Bwabwata National Park

Name: Bwabwata National Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Bwabwata National Park, Namibia — Photo: Jedesto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 6,009 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

10 km zone · low confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Bwabwata National Park

Species: 427
Grid cells: 972
Records: 145,759

Birds 289
Bony fish 54
Insects 50
Mammals 19
Reptiles 10
Amphibians 5

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Bwabwata National Park. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

mammalEN

African Elephant

Loxodonta africana

Desert-adapted herds that survive on remembered water in some of the driest country in Africa.

Very likelyNA

mammalNT

Southern Giraffe

Giraffa giraffa

Tall browsers of the mopane and acacia belts.

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Spotted Hyena

Crocuta crocuta

Whoops after dark; kills at first light.

UncommonNA

Chances by species: African Elephant, Southern Giraffe, Spotted Hyena

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Bwabwata National Park, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.