Tanzania to establish a new tourist park
Tanzania plans to establish a new tourist wildlife park in her bustling northern tourist circuit and bring to 15 the number of national parks currently holding the country’s tourism.
Mkomazi Game Reserve in northern Tanzanian border with Kenya will have its status elevated to a national park then marketed globally as one among Africa’s wildlife destination sites, Tanzanian government officials said. Tanzanian Tourism Deputy Minister Zubein Mhita said the plan to establish the new park resulted from an increased number of wildlife in the once poaching area.
She said the Tanzania National Parks, an authority trust to manage and protect wildlife and nature in Tanzania, will take over the planned 3,600 square kilometer Mkomazi Game Reserve for development into a full-fledged tourist site.
Boasting of a big population of the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard – the park shares territorial borders with Tsavo West National Park in Kenya, forming a natural cross-border eco-system attracting wildlife to track freely through the 100 kilometer borderline between Tanzania and Kenya.
Over 70 species of large mammals, 376 bird species and 1,500 plant species are found in the Reserve. An impressive conservation program aiming to save endangered rhinos and wild dogs is taking place inside the park with protection of rare African Hunting Dog and Black Rhino.
By Apolinari Tairo
Courtesy of eTN
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