Facts on Queen Elizabeth National Park
Information about Queen Elizabeth National Park; a reliable list of regarding the park exists. After Murchison Falls National Park in 1952, Queen Elizabeth National Park is second among national parks in Uganda in both size and age.
Covering an area of roughly 1978 square kilometers, Queen Elizabeth National Park offers environment with variety of mammals about 95 species, 620 species of birds, crocodiles and several kinds of antelopes, and many more.
With about 5000, 3000 elephants and 1000 buffaloes, the park has the greatest concentration of hippos in East Africa. Number of antelopes like Duiker, Reed Buck, Topic and the Statunga antelopes also call it home. One finds them among the plants on the Kazinga canal. More importantly, Kazinga canal of Queen Elizabeth National Park patterns most of wildlife and it’s the primary water source for animals.
With so many more than 600 bird species, Queen Elizabeth National Park is indeed a birding destination. This ranks the second finest place in Africa for birding and sixth worldwide among all the sites. More fact, international birding recognizes Queen Elizabeth National Park as a significant birding area “IBA.”
Situated on the rift valley floor spanning Uganda to Malawi, Queen Elizabeth National Park is part of the western rift valley arm of Africa. Form the terraces of Mweya Safari bungalows where the Kazinga channel runs clearly west from Lake George to Lake Edward. But given its modest speed, it’s difficult to ascertain its orientation. Along with other rare mostly endemic fish species including Bagrus, Docmac, Sarothenodon Nitocticous and Sarothenodon Leacosticous, the rift valley lakes have.
Originally not named by its present name is Queen Elizabeth National Park. Originally known as Kazinga National Park, it was renamed “Queen Elizabeth National Park” following the visit of Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1952. Perhaps this is the reason the park is so well-known now all around.
More importantly, Queen Elizabeth National Park is sometimes referred to as a twin park for Queen Elizabeth Country Park in England. Twinned in a cultural exchange project and natural support, these two protected areas mostly serve to help conservation by means of empowering and close collaboration with the local community.
Facts Regarding Queen Elizabeth National Park
Lion at National Park of Queen Elizabeth
Although Queen Elizabeth National Park has been around for around 10,000 years, the Kazinga Channel waterbody lacks crocodiles. These enormous reptiles had to vacate Kazinga channel during the volcanic active period in the western rift valley that filled lake Edward with the volcanic ash from the eruption thus making water toxic for life to exist – it leads to the disappearance of the crocodiles from these water bodies.
Queen Elizabeth National Park acted as a grazing land for an indigenous African pastoralist tribe called the ‘’Basongora’’. However, they left the park due to frequent cattle raiding by Buganda and Bunyoro Kingdom. But the remaining Basongola where forced into fishing from the lakes; Lake Edward, Lake gorge and Kazinga channel thus forming the Queen Elizabeth National Park fishing villages of Busonga, Kasenyi, Katungaru many more.
The first European national to set a foot in Queen Elizabeth National Park famously known as Sir Henry Marton Stanley. He was an English explorer who visited Uganda in 1889 and by the time he visited Queen Elizabeth National Park he did not find it as human settlement but just a vast vacant land and he loved to do self-driven adventure through the plains of the park.