Kafue National Park
Kafue is Zambia's largest national park, covering an area of 22,400 km2. The park is named after the eponymous river flowing throughout the park. The park was founded in 1950, and since then the management of parks has been put on better. At its core, the park is a huge forest savannah.
The relief park Kafue is mostly flat, except for several granite hills between Chong and Ngoma, having a height of about 120 meters. In the northern part of the park, clay soil, but in the rest of the soil, low fertile sand-suglinist. This happened due to heavy torrential rains that washed all nutrients. Due to the low fertility, grass in the park is unsuitable for food for animals. But rains also bring life-giving moisture to plants. Exhausted by prolonged heat, trees are transformed and covered with young leaves for a couple of days, filler meadows bloom with colorful colors, from which now a trail of birds is heard, herds of antelopes and elephants come into motion. Swamps around the Kafue Park rivers attract water goats, hippos, black rhinos. In the swamps you can also meet rare red faces. Leach is a kind of antelope adapted to move around marshy areas. Previously, over two hundred thousand faces lived in these places, but due to uncontrolled hunting, their current population is several hundred. Only the creation of a national park allowed to preserve these animals from extermination.
In savannah forests and flood meadows, Kafue hides from the incinerating Sun with almost 160 species of animals, 481 species of birds, 70 reptiles and 35 species of amphibians live in rivers. A huge number of insects attracts dozens of species of birds from Asia and Europe, flying here to winter. Of the animals, it is worth noting the baboons, the antelope of the congoni, the bison of Boehme. In addition to them, in large quantities in the Kafue National Park, antelopes of wildebeest, kudu, warthogs, and gimples live in large quantities. Of the predators in the park live: lions, hyenas, mongooses, jackals, leopards.
