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  2. Kenya Wildlife Service - Wikipedia

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    Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is a state corporation under the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife established by an act of Parliament; Wildlife Conservation and Management Act CAP 376, of 1989, now repealed and replaced by the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013. At independence, the Government of Kenya committed itself to conserving ...

  3. Hell's Gate National Park - Wikipedia

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    Hell's Gate National Park. /  0.91583°S 36.31333°E  / -0.91583; 36.31333. Hell's Gate National Park lies south of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, north west of Nairobi. Hell's Gate National Park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs, once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It was established in 1984.

  4. Aberdare National Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is located about 100 km north of Nairobi and stretches over a wide variety of terrain at elevations from 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) to 4,000 metres (13,000 ft). Established in May 1950, the Aberdare National Park covers an area of 766 square kilometers and forms part of the Aberdare Mountain Range.

  5. Tsavo West National Park - Wikipedia

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    Kenya Wildlife Service. Tsavo West National Park is located in Taita-Taveta County of Kenya. The park covers an area of 9,065 square kilometres. The A109 road Nairobi - Mombasa and a railway divides it from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area.

  6. Visit America's national parks for free on these six ... - AOL

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    Every national park in America is free to visit on these six days in 2024. ... 2023 at 7:00 AM. ... Waco Mammoth charges an access fee for its dig shelter. That park is jointly managed by the Park ...

  7. Amboseli National Park - Wikipedia

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    Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. [1] It is 39,206 ha (392.06 km 2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. [2] The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of ...

  8. Ruma National Park - Wikipedia

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    Ruma National Park. /  0.6432°S 34.28°E  / -0.6432; 34.28. Ruma National Park is the only terrestrial park in Kenya's Nyanza Province. Dubbed the "Last Retreat of the Roan Antelope", the park protects the only indigenous population of rare roan antelopes within Kenya. At present, the population is on the verge of extinction with ...

  9. Mwea National Reserve - Wikipedia

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    www .kws .org /parks /parks _reserves /MWNR .html. The Mwea National Reserve is a nature reserve in Kenya. [2] Its altitude ranges between 1,000 and 1,100 m (3,300 and 3,600 ft), dominated by the Acacia-Commiphora bushland on the north shore of Kamburu Reservoir, at the confluence of Tana and Thiba Rivers. The other vegetation is mixed among ...