SAMBURU
Located just
north of the equator in the rain-shadow of Mt. Kenya, this Heartland
includes parts of Mt. Kenya National Park and Samburu National Reserve, plus
extensive ranch and communal lands. Important elephant migration corridors
exist in this Heartland, as well as northern specialty species like
reticulated
giraffe, Somali ostrich, beisa
oryx
and
gerenuk. Free-ranging lions, hyenas and
leopards live along side avifauna,
wild dogs,
Grevy's zebra and black rhinoceros. Intact
wet montane forests, dry cedar forests, Loroki plateau grassland,
acacia-grassland and the Ewaso Nyiro River are part of the Samburu
Heartland.
