Zakouma National Park

Zakouma National Park

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established = 1963
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Zakouma National Park is a national park, located between Sarh and Am Timan, in the south of Chad. Created in 1963, it was Chad's first national park, and has an area of almost 3000 square kilometres (1200 square miles). It is entirely surrounded by the Bahr Salamat Faunal Reserve.

Zakouma was neglected during the period of civil conflict, but a restoration programme, supported by the European Union, began in 1989 and is continuing in 2006. The area in and near the Park has seen significant reduction in certain wildlife species in recent decades. For example, elephant herds were substantial in number as recently as 1970 with an estimated population of 300,000; however, by 2007 the number had dwindled to about 10,000. The African elephant nominally has governmental protection, but the implementation practices of the government (backed with certain EU help) has proven insufficient to stop the poaching [http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060830/sc_space/100slaughteredelephantsfoundinafrica] .

In 2006, Conservationist J. Michael Fay and National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols traveled to Zakouma National Park to document the danger poachers create for the world's largest remaining concentration of elephants. Their trip resulted in [http://mediastorm.org/0016.htm Ivory Wars, Last Stand in Zakouma] .

New tourist accommodation was opened in the Park, at Tinga, in 2003.

The fauna of the Park includes 44 species of large mammals, and 25 species of birds. In 2005, a study estimated the lion population of the Park to be about 120 while the number of elephants inside the park was counted at 3,885. [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/wcs-wes083006.php]

Zakouma National Park has been nominated [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/2056/] by the Chadian Government to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

ee also

*2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter

External links

* [http://www.zakouma.com Zakouma National Park (in French)]
* [http://www.deltcd.ec.europa.eu/fr/item2_info_docs/doc_zakouma.htm EU Zakouma project (in French)]
* [http://mediastorm.org/0016.htm Ivory Wars] , produced by Mediastorm


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