Saadani National Park
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Saadani National Park is Tanzania
's 13th National Park. Tourists can view animals basking along the Indian Ocean
shores. It has an area of 1100 km2 and was established in 2005 from an a game reserve which had existed from 1969. It is the only wildlife sanctuary in Tanzania bordering the sea.
including the former Saadani game reserve, the former Mkwaja ranch area, the Wami River
as well as the Zaraninge Forest. Now the former ranch and the Game Reserve are combined and under protection by TANAPA and wildlife species are free to move within the entire area and its buffer zones. Many villages exist around the boundaries of the Park. In 1969, when Saadani Game Reserve was officially created, Saadani village elders were consulted and the loss of cultivated land was compensated for. Before being included in the national park, the Zaraninge Forest was managed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) whose goal was to preserve the extremely high botanical diversity of one of the last coastal rain forests remaining in Tanzania. The Mkwaja area is the reminder of a large cattle ranch which has been run from 1952 to 2000.
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
's 13th National Park. Tourists can view animals basking along the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
shores. It has an area of 1100 km2 and was established in 2005 from an a game reserve which had existed from 1969. It is the only wildlife sanctuary in Tanzania bordering the sea.
History
Gazetted in 2005, it encompasses a preserved ecosystemEcosystem
An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
including the former Saadani game reserve, the former Mkwaja ranch area, the Wami River
Wami River
The Wami River lies entirely within the African nation of Tanzania in the Pwani Region and Morogoro Region in eastern Tanzania. Its source is specified in the Kaguru Mountains and it flows East entering the Indian Ocean west of Zanzibar. But its catchment area extends from the Kinyasangwe River to...
as well as the Zaraninge Forest. Now the former ranch and the Game Reserve are combined and under protection by TANAPA and wildlife species are free to move within the entire area and its buffer zones. Many villages exist around the boundaries of the Park. In 1969, when Saadani Game Reserve was officially created, Saadani village elders were consulted and the loss of cultivated land was compensated for. Before being included in the national park, the Zaraninge Forest was managed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) whose goal was to preserve the extremely high botanical diversity of one of the last coastal rain forests remaining in Tanzania. The Mkwaja area is the reminder of a large cattle ranch which has been run from 1952 to 2000.
External links
- http://www.saadanipark.org