Selous Game Reserve Size: 55 000km² Good Session: June - October (dry season) Location: In south-eastern Tanzania Selous Game Reserve in the Great Selous Region, Tanzania Selous is one of the most remote and least visited parks in Africa. , is the second biggest conservation area in Africa, and the largest game reserve on the continent . Once home to the biggest concentration of elephant on the continent (over 110,000), the ‘Ivory Wars’ of the late 70s and early 80s had a devastating effect on the herds, reducing numbers to an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 today. The black rhino population was similarly laid waste, and today there are perhaps 150 to 200 left out of a population of 3 000 in the early 70s. It would be easy to reduce the Selous to just a set of numbers – 120 000 buffalo, 150 000 wildebeest, 5 000 zebra, an estimated half the African population of wild dog total some 4 000, 350 bird species, 50 000 impala, and a mere 2 000 visitors a year Accommodation Selous mbega Camp location:500 meters from the park capacity/bed:camp
Rufiji River Camp location:north eastern side of the park capacity/Bed:20
Sable Moutain Lodge location: selous capacity/Bed:
Beho Beho Camp location:selous capacity/Bed:
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