Akagera National Park in Rwanda

Akagera National Park
Type	wild

Owner
Region	Eastern Province
Country	Rwanda
Website	Website

Directors	: J. P. Karangire (director)

Key People	2018-: Tammie Matson (researcher)

Veterinarians

Elephant department

Head keepers of elephants

Elephant keepers
Record history
History of updates	2018-09-28

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

and possibly other wild elephants which have no record in this database.

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 (2024). 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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