Akagera National Park in Rwanda

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Akagera National Park
Type	wild
Region	Eastern Province
Country	Rwanda
Website	Website
Related persons
Owner


Directors	: J. P. Karangire


Key People	2018-: Tammie Matson (researcher)
Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2018-09-28

Latest document update	2020-10-30 07:03:11

Description

Akagera National Park, Rwanda .

Living elephants

At the Akagera National Park lives 3 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

♂ Helico born 1970
⚪ Murinzi
⚪ Mwiza born 1970

Comments / picturesIn the year 1975, over 26 elephants were moved into Akagera National Park from Bugesera Kigali, these 7 year old elephants also included 14 males and 12 females. Of these 3 were habituated and included Mutware the chief, Mwiza as well as Helico.

Though the rest remained wild. With time, Mwiza and Helico followed the wild elephants thus leaving Mutware to remain lonely until his death in 2018.

References for records about Akagera National Park

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Akagera National Park, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2893. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://www.akageranationalpark.org/elephants-akagera.html

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