Nkasa Rupara National Park

Name: Nkasa Rupara National Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Nkasa Rupara National Park, Namibia — Photo: no rights reserved, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 323 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 Nkasa Rupara National Park

Species: 189
Grid cells: 420
Records: 19,826

Birds 120
Insects 33
Mammals 15
Bony fish 10
Amphibians 7
Reptiles 4

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Nkasa Rupara 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.

LikelyNA

mammalLC

Spotted Hyena

Crocuta crocuta

Whoops after dark; kills at first light.

UncommonNA

mammalNT

Southern Giraffe

Giraffa giraffa

Tall browsers of the mopane and acacia belts.

RareNA

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

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Nkasa Rupara 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.