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Selous Game Reserve
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Selous Game Reserve is a vast protected wildlife area and World Heritage Site located in Tanzania that preserves one of Africa's largest remaining ecosystems. It matters because it protects significant populations of wildlife and represents an important area for conservation and scientific study.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- game reserve
- Country
- Tanzania
- Located in
- Lindi Region
- Area
- 21492
- Official website
- www.selousgamereserve.net
- Image
- Selous Game Reserve (3) (28986810231).jpg
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- Commons category
- Selous Game Reserve
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- inception
- 1922-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- Selous
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Encyclopedic overview
The Selous Game Reserve, now renamed as Nyerere National Park (in-part), is a protected nature reserve and wilderness area in southern Tanzania, East Africa. It covers a total area of 50,000 km (19,000 sq mi), with additional buffer zones, as well. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, owing to its high levels of biodiversity and vast, undisturbed natural landscapes, such as the grasslands and the miombo woodlands habitat. Among the numerous species within the park are some of the continent's largest and most iconic (and most vulnerable, threatened or endangered), such as the bush elephant, black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, lion, leopard, spotted hyena, painted dog, Cape buffalo, Masai giraffe, plains zebra, white-bearded gnu and the giant Nile crocodile. Due to the fragility and sensitivity of the many species and ecosystems within the park, human habitation is not permitted within its bounds, and all persons entering and exiting are tallied and tracked by the Wildlife Division of the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selous Game Reserve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.