Sunday, June 29, 2025

Hwange National Park - Zimbabwe

 Is not everyday that one gets cards from African countries and I was lucky to find a few in that book fair. This one from Zimbabwe is also from a National Park. 

The iconic Hwange National Parkis Zimbabwe’s largest national parklocated in the northwestern part of Zimbabwe. It covers 14,650 square kilometers.
 It is home to the largest population of elephants in Zimbabwe and Africa’s largest population of the endangered wild dog and one may find rare species such as roan and sable.
In addition to four of the big 5: elephant, lion, leopard and buffalo; Hwange has 100 mammal species and nearly 400 bird species.          
The area is mostly covered with savanna grasslands and teak and mopane woodlands. - in:
https://www.zimparks.org
 
The roan antelope is one of Africa’s largest bovids, only exceeded in size by the African buffalo and eland.
It is a rare and endangered antelope species, which has a patchy distribution in savannah ecosystems south of the Sahara Desert. Due to past hunting pressures, it now occurs only in areas where rigorous conservation is applied.

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