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February 26, 2008

LAKE MBURO NATIONAL PARK (LMNP).

LMNP is one of the most exciting places to be for every part of your life. The park’s harbours  are surrounded with several mammal species, which include; zebras, elands, topi, buffalos and  impalas as well as a variety of birds which, stand to include the rare shoebill stork, crested  cranes and many other.

A wide range of Mosaic habitats on the sculptured landscape include rich acacia tree valley,  seasonal and permanent swamps supporting wildlife wealth as well as forest galleries. The  landscape is covered with idyllic lakeshores and rolling grassy hills. However, its also covered  with its mosaic habitat of rocky outcrops, bushes, thickets wooded savannahs, swamps, lakes,  forests, dry hill side and open savannahs which support a number of wildlife and plants.

LMNP is the smallest Savannah National park in the whole of Uganda, covering 370km only.

Location:
The park is situated in Mbarara district and can be easily accessed using the Kampala-Masaka  road for just 3.5 hours. 13km past Lyantonde, you turn left to Nshara gate or 27km past  Lyantonde turn left at Sanga trading centre for another route. These 2 routes all have well  demarcated sign posts to show you the right directions.

To Rwonyo park head quarters, it’s about 2 minutes drive from the 2 gates.
Its about 8km from the main road to Nshara and 13km from Nsanga trading centre to Nsanga gate.

Fauna and Flora:
LMNP supports a tremendous biodiversity, which stands to include 68 mammal species such as  buffalos, topis, elands, zebras and impalas as well as hyenas, jackals, and leopards that are  predators. The park is also a home to more than 315 species of birds which include; African  foot, rare shoe bill stork, papyrus yellow warbler, brown chested wattled carruther’s cisticola  great snipe, white winged warbler, Abyssinian ground horn bill, tobora cisticola, sandle billed  stork as well as the dominant woody vegetation of Acacia species. Boscia species and olea  species, all being supported by Lake Mburo.

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