- Dinder National Park
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Dinder National Park is a national park and biosphere reserve in eastern Sudan, on the Sudanese border with Ethiopia approximately 400 kilometers southeast of Khartoum. It was established as a park in 1935 and designated in 1979 as a member of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Dinder National Park is biologically significant because it falls on the border between the Sahel and Ethiopian ecoregions. It contains three distinct ecosystems: riverine, woodland, and maya (oxbow lake). The park is home to 27 species of large mammals, over 160 species of birds, 32 species of fish, and small mammals, bats, reptiles, and amphibians. It is in a major flyway used by birds migrating between Eurasia and Africa.
The ecology of the park is threatened by encroachment from cattle herders who are being displaced from their traditional grazing lands by the expansion of crop agriculture, through the fundamental cause of expanding regional population.
In prior times the locale has been a habitat of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but this endangered canid has had a decline in its numbers in this region.[1]
References
- C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Painted Hunting Dog: Lycaon pictus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
- Adil Mohamed Ali and Mutasim Bashir Nimir, "Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Dinder National Park (Biosphere Reserve)", Fifth World Parks Conference, 2003; includes maps.
- Encyclopedia Britannica entry
Line notes
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009
National Parks of Sudan Dinder · Lantoto · RadomCategories:- National parks of Sudan
- Biosphere reserves of Sudan
- Protected areas established in 1935
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