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Nesta página as Reservas Nacionais de Samburu, Buffalo Springs e Shaba, ainda Laikipia e Reserva Florestal Mkogodo...
Aqui existe a subespécie girafa-reticulada e e o Gerenuk, conhecido por "gazela-girafa"!
Fotos de fauna tiradas pelo autor!
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Com 104km², é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services. Acima da Linha do Equador, a 325 quilômetros ao norte de Nairóbi, a reserva está em uma região semidesértica, longe de fontes de água.
São relativamente poucos os animais que habitam aqui, destacando o oryx-beisa, o dik-dik-de-guenther (menor antílope do mundo), o elande, o impala e a girafa-reticulada.
Outro habitante desta reserva é o Gerenuk, uma gazela diferente, especialmente por sua forma de se alimentar, cujo nome científico é Litocranius walleri.
Estas espécies têm pouca dependência de água e podem encontrar-se nas zonas áridas durante o dia.
O resto dos herbívoros, incluindo zebras-de-grevy, elefantes, búfalos, leões e outros felinos, cobos, gazelas-de-grant e outros antílopes buscam as ribeiras frescas e sombreadas durante as horas de sol; mas todos são encontrados aqui.
As fotos laterais by P&H Harris (http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/), mostram girafas-reticuladas em Samburu.
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Coração das Terras Samburu (Samburu Heartland) e Áreas de Conservação
Reservas Nacionais de Samburu, Buffalo Springs e Shaba, Laikipia e Reserva Florestal Mkogodo
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Localização da Reserva Nacional Laikipia (lado esquerdo), e das Reservas Nacionais de Buffalo Springs e de Shaba (lado direito).
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Located just norte do Equador in the rain-shadow do Monte Quênia, o coração da terra inclui partes do Parque Nacional Monte Quênia e Reserva Nacional Samburu, plus extensive ranch and communal lands.
Importante corredor de migração do elefante existe nessa terra, as well as northern specialty espécies like girafa-reticulada, avestruz-somaliano, oryx-beisa e gerenuk.
Free-ranging leões, hienas e leopardos live along side avifauna, cachorros-selvagens, zebra-de-grevy e rinoceronte-negro. Intact wet montane forests, dry cedar forests, Loroki plateau grassland, acacia-grassland e the Ewaso Nyiro River are part of the Samburu Heartland.
Área: 4,007,076 hectares / 9,901,700 acres.
Key features: Mt. Kenya National Park; Laikipia; Samburu National Reserve; Buffalo Springs National Reserve; Shaba National Reserve.
African Wildlife News – http://www.awf.org/ (01/01/2000)
Protected Areas Programme – UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
info@unep-wcmc.org – http://www.unep-wcmc.org/index.html
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Reserva Nacional Buffalo Springs (Buffalo Springs Game Reserve)
Aqui encontramos a subespécie girafa-reticulada e o gerenuk (gazela-girafa).
Podemos ver: búfalo, crocodilo, elefante, ground squirrel?, guepardo, hiena, hipopótamo, leão, leopardo, oryx, rinoceronte-negro, zebra-de-grevy, ainda o avestruz-somaliano e mais de 365 espécies de pássaros.
Com 131km², é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services. Localiza-se acima da linha do Equador, quase 300 quilômetros ao norte de Nairóbi.
The reserve offers a unique vista of rounded hills and undulating plains. The mix of wood and grassland with riverine forest and swamp is home to a wide variety of animals and birdlife.
Accomodation is found in the Samburu Game lodge sited on the edge of the Uaso Nyiro River. Buffalo Springs Lodge.
Reserva Nacional Shaba (Shaba National Reserve)
Desconheço sobre girafas nesse parque...
Com 239km², é administrada pelo Kenya Wildlife Services, está localizada acima da linha do Equador, quase 300 quilômetros ao norte de Nairóbi. It is the home of Joy Adamson's monument.
Só há um Lodge em Shaba: Sarova Shaba Lodge.
Reserva Nacional Platô Laikipia (Laikipia Plateau National Reserve)
Aqui encontramos a subespécie girafa-reticulada.
Inaugurado em outubro de 1991, é administrado pelo Kenya Wildlife Services. It is nordeste do Distrito de Laikipia e na fronteira com o Distrito de Isiolo...
Encountering Grevy's zebras or blue-necked ostriches is another matter, as these animals are rarely found outside norte do Quênia. These three varieties enrich the great array of wildlife living in the harsh terras de Laikipia-Samburu.
Away from the Uaso Nyiro River the landscape turns rocky, austere and largely devoid of vegetation except for sere grasses and stunted acacia trees.
(Only In Laikipia – African Wildlife News – http://www.awf.org/ – 01/10/1999)
The Laikipia-Samburu Heartland
In this Heartland, on the vast expanses of the Laikipia plateau in north central Kenya, a great diversity of wildlife thrive in the semidesert conditions. The pastoral Samburu people herd their goats, sheep, cattle and camels in the shadow of Mt. Kenya, a crucial source of water for humans and animals alike.
AWF is working with numerous partners - such as the Mpala Research Center and the Laikipia Wildlife Forum (an association of ranchers and landowners) - on several fronts. In a major research project, known as Carnivore Conservation and Livestock in Africa, Dr. Laurence Frank of the University of California at Berkeley and his team are examining the role of predators in Laikipia's food chain and exploring ways to minimize livestock losses to predators. Researchers have compiled an impressive amount of data on predator distribution and conducted extensive interviews with commercial landowners and pastoralists in the region. With the enthusiastic support of local landowners, researchers have been able to gauge population sizes fairly accurately and gain more insight into what prompts lions to attack livestock.
Laikipia-Samburu has been the focus of AWF's early efforts to develop wildlife-related businesses aimed at conserving natural resources and improving the economic well-being of local citizens. Crucial to the goals is the Wildlife Economics Series research program, which identifies ways landowners might use their holdings for wildlife preservation, tourism and other activities. Drawing on research results, the AWF Conservation Service Center is able to advise communities and ranch owners on managing wildlife businesses.
As a first step in enterprise development, AWF has devised a method called Participatory Business Options Planning. Advisers work closely with community groups to generate ideas for natural-resource businesses. Entrepreneurs learn to recognize the challenges and pitfalls of such ventures and to devise winning strategies. AWF has developed "tool kits" to guide prospective business owners. One wildlife enterprise with high potential in Laikipia is beekeeping. An evaluation of the honey market reveals a large untapped demand for honey products overseas. In China, for example, bee venom is used to treat arthritis and sells for $100 a gram. Laikipia beekeepers need more training and technology are needed to meet international guidelines for harvesting and processing honey for export. AWF this year completed the Laikipia Wildlife Economics Study, a series of papers that report on incentives and opportunities for maintaining wildlife on private lands.
(African Wildlife News – http://www.awf.org/ – 01/01/2000)
Reserva Florestal Mkogodo (Mkogodo Forest Reserve)
Desconheço sobre girafas neste parque...
Managed by Local Authorities - Mkogodo Forest Reserve is a belt of riverine forest along the Ngare Ndare River. It is the homeland of a unique small tribe known as the Laikipia Maasai.
The landscape is rich and varied, game inclui: búfalo, bushbuck, bushpig, duiker, elande, elefante, gerenuk, zebra-de-grevy, plains game and the big cats: guepardo, leopardo e leão.
Good for birdwatching, it is a little know area which is ideal for walking holidays and camel safaris for the intrepid traveller.
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