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Meru National Park It was at Meru National Park that Joy and George Adamson famously rehabilitated Elsa, the lioness, raised from a cub, whose tale was told in the film Born Free and it was here that George Adamson later set up his 'little camp under Mugwongo Hill' in order to reintroduce to the wild the young lions that had been used in the filming of the story. Here, also, Joy Adamson lived with the cheetah Pippa, a story told in the book The Spotted Sphinx. This area was first made a reserve in 1962, in order to protect land under great pressure from hunting. In 1966 it became the national park it is today. Although Meru has suffered from poachers in the past, as have virtually all African parks and reserves, game stocks are now quite high. Meru lies almost in the centre of the map of Kenya. Bounded at its northernmost point by the Tana, Kenya's longest river, which attracts serious amounts of game, the park has Grevy's zebra, lion (of course), rather shy elephant who, nonetheless, are very keen on the nuts of the doum palm that grow here, leopard, ostrich, reticulated giraffe and good birding. The main wildlife habitats are savannah, bush and woodland. On the south of the park lies the Ura River, on the north the Tana and in the north-west the Nyambeni Hills are misty in the distance. The tree-lined edges of the rivers offer the gerenuk with its elongated neck, buck, cheetah and both hippo and crocodile. Meru also has some wonderful examples of the stately giant baobabs, huge trees with swollen trunks that look rather as though they have been planted with their roots in the air. |
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