Kasanka National Park in Zambia
Kasanka National Park located in Northern Zambia just west of the Luangwa Valley.It is first national parks of Zambia.It is also 1st private national park.This park privately funded Kasanka Trust Ltd has taken on all administration responsibilities, in affiliation with the Zambian Wildlife Authority, and has been in operation back 1986.Kasanka isalso a beautiful wilderness of woodland, plains, lakes, rivers and swamps in the North of Zambia.
The park has become a focus of bounded bread-and-butter development through employment, tourism acquirement sharing, and abstruse abutment from the Trust. Administration activities conducted by Kasanka cover anti-poaching, blaze management, infrastructure, tourism development and advance of applied and accurate research. Community abutment programmes run by the Trust accept helped surrounding communities to accomplish absolute allowances from bigger ability administration as able-bodied as acceptable with education, health, HIV/AIDS, and alimentation support.
There have many rivers and marshes are home to a wide range of (reed)frogs and other amphibians. Large crocodiles dwell in the rivers and huge specimens can be seen along the Kasanka and Luwombwa Rivers. Large Nile monitors occur as well, as do Speke’s hinged tortoise. Common snake species include African rock python, forest cobra, lined olympic snake, olive marsh snake and herald snake.
Kasanka National Park world heritage site listed in 2nd july 2012 meeting in the Russian city
Kasanka National Park located in Northern Zambia just west of the Luangwa Valley.It is first national parks of Zambia.It is also 1st private national park.This park privately funded Kasanka Trust Ltd has taken on all administration responsibilities, in affiliation with the Zambian Wildlife Authority, and has been in operation back 1986.Kasanka isalso a beautiful wilderness of woodland, plains, lakes, rivers and swamps in the North of Zambia.
Kasanka National Park |
The park has become a focus of bounded bread-and-butter development through employment, tourism acquirement sharing, and abstruse abutment from the Trust. Administration activities conducted by Kasanka cover anti-poaching, blaze management, infrastructure, tourism development and advance of applied and accurate research. Community abutment programmes run by the Trust accept helped surrounding communities to accomplish absolute allowances from bigger ability administration as able-bodied as acceptable with education, health, HIV/AIDS, and alimentation support.
There have many rivers and marshes are home to a wide range of (reed)frogs and other amphibians. Large crocodiles dwell in the rivers and huge specimens can be seen along the Kasanka and Luwombwa Rivers. Large Nile monitors occur as well, as do Speke’s hinged tortoise. Common snake species include African rock python, forest cobra, lined olympic snake, olive marsh snake and herald snake.
marsh snake |
marsh snake |
Kasanka National Park world heritage site listed in 2nd july 2012 meeting in the Russian city
.really it is attractive place,this attraction for visitors it forms a valuable protected area for many endangered species.