Reserve de Nazinga - Réserve de Nazinga

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Reserve de Nazinga

The Forêt classee et Ranch de Gibier de Nazinga is a national park in Burkina Faso.

background

history

The park was founded in 1979 by the Canadian brothers Robert and Clark Lungren. The two grew up in Burkina Faso and experienced how mismanagement, clearing of the forest, overgrazing and poaching together with recurring periods of drought led to devastating famines. They recognized that sustainable management can save both people from famine and animals from extinction. With the support of the population, they laid 600 km of slopes through the area and built dikes. Locals were hired as game rangers to maintain the animal population. Hunting and fishing were allowed to a controlled extent. This also brought in the financial resources for the project. The success was so great that the brothers were eventually forced out of the project and it has been under state control ever since.[1]The park has been expanded several times since then.

landscape

Climatically, the park is in the Sudan zone with precipitation in the range between 600 mm and 1000 mm per year. The savannah landscape is characterized by acacia and thorn plants. The density of trees increases towards the south and forms occasional groves, forests and gallery forests along the rivers.

Flora and fauna

The shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa, also Shea nut tree) and the baobab (Adansonia digitata, also Baobab tree) are the most important tree species in the park[2]. You can also find the trees called Néré.

Trees
Baobab.

The park is home to more than 20,000 animals, including around 800 elephants. Thousands of antelopes including Senegal grass antelope (Kobus Kob), Defassa waterbuck (Kobus defassa), Roan antelopes (Hippotragus equinus), Hartebeest (Alcelaphus, Afrikaans: Hartebeest), Senegal Reedbuck (Redunca redunca), Oribis (Ourebia), Bushbuck (Tragelaphus). Furthermore warthogs (Phacochoerus), Crocodiles, baboons (Papio), more than 800 African buffalo (Syncerus)[3]

Big game
crocodile

275 bird species live in the park, including the ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri, also Little Alexander Parakeet), Black-headed parrot (Poicephalus senegalus), Senegalrack ( Coracias abyssinicus, English: Abyssinian roller), Red shoulder caterpillar eater (Campephaga phoenicea), Red Schnabeltoko (Tockus erythrorhynchus)

Birds
Ring-necked Parakeet

climate

Climatically, the park is in the Sudan-Guinea Zone. It receives more than 900 mm of precipitation a year and has lower temperatures than northern Burkina Faso.

getting there

The park is half an hour from Pô by car. You drive west out of the city over the N 25 direction Leo. After 35 km a slope turns left to the 1  Park entrance at Waleme from. It's at the entrance, still outside the park Campement d'Eléphant.

Ouagadougou - Pô 176 km

Fees / permits

1000 CFA / car, 8500 CFA / person, 2500 CFA guide, 1000 CFA photo permit.

Ranch de Nazinga: 2-bed apartment 10,000 CFA, 12,500 CFA bungalow

Campement d'Elephant: Double 22,000 CFA

mobility

Several dirt tracks lead through the park. Partly solid, earthy-stony subsoil, in some places sandy. Several rivers have to be crossed. A 4WD is necessary. Orientation away from the main slopes can be difficult.

As there are no predators in Nazinga, the park is accessible on bicycles. One of the few parks in Africa where this is possible. You need an all-terrain MTB or touring bike.

Tourist Attractions

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  • Foret de Nazinga
  • Environment map

Several rivers run through the park and feed it Sissili riverthat crosses the park in the south. The rivers are dammed into lakes in several places. The largest of these dams (French: Barrages) are the 1  Barrage KozougouBarrage Kozougou (Q56257639) in the Wikidata databasethat you cross on the main slope. The 2  Barrage AkwazénaBarrage Akwazéna (Q56257664) in the Wikidata database at Campement Ranch de Nazinga. North of the main runway 3  Barrage KalleboulouBarrage Kalleboulou (Q56257670) in the Wikidata database,4  Barrage TalangaBarrage Talanga (Q56257684) in the Wikidata database and5  Barrage AkalonBarrage Akalon (Q56257687) in the Wikidata database.South of the 6  Barrage Central,7  Barrage Barka,8  Barrage Nagulo,9  Barrage Nakourou and10  Barrage Bodjaro.

accommodation

Hotels and hostels

Pô offers several accommodation options. You can also find plenty of guides here for day trips to the park. This is at the park entrance 1  Campement d'Elephant. Inside the park, to the west, at Barrage Akwazéna das 2  Campement de Ranch de Nazinga.

security

For the security situation in Burkina Faso and visa modalities, see the Country information.

literature

  • Conserving wildlife amongst the cotton fields. A third of a century of experience at the Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 188 (2016), No. 7, pp.1-13
  • Land-use control and fishery management at the Nazinga Game Ranch in Burkina Faso; Nature et Faune, Vol. 24 (2010), No. 2, pp. 45-48 Full text

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑https://rmportal.net/framelib/koudougouburkinafasoranchnazinga.pdf
  2. ↑http://www.barkica.com/EBchecked/topic/85420/Burkina-Faso/54880/Plant-and-animal-life
  3. ↑https://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/116863/1/Marchal et al. Nazinga.pdf
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