Ruaha Park Background (continued)

The largest Park in Tanzania Ruaha (at 20,221 sq km) is the size of a small country like Belgium.

Ruaha lies in the convergence zone where northern and southern hemisphere migrant birds and East African and South African mammals overlap so that you can see both in the same place! This results in an overwhelming number of different bird species (530 recorded species nearly half that found in the entire country) and over 1400 plant species which lead to a correspondingly large number of mammals.

The vast area of the park varies between mountains and escarpments, grassland plains, rocky kopjes and riverine areas. With such a choice of habitat it is not surprising that a wide diversity of mammal species make Ruaha their home.

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