Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve

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Stephen Cunliffe –

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Stephen is a travel writer and avid conservationist whose work appears in prestigious magazines such as Africa Geographic and Travel Africa.

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Where Chimpanzees and Shoebills Reside

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2/5

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Situated in the heart of the Albertine rift and bordering majestic Lake Albert, this reserve lies well off-the-beaten-track. Wildlife numbers are generally still low, but elephant sightings are fairly reliable and I have enjoyed my best ever shoebill viewing here. Keen birders will surely twitter when they hear I once saw 13 shoebills in a single day boating through the reeded islands of Lake Albert. The park also offers energetic safari enthusiasts a chance to join researchers as they track semi-habituated chimps. But, be warned, it’s a long, hard day of walking and you seldom get much more than a glimpse of the elusive primates before they take off deeper into the forest. In summation, I would say that Semliki is a park for the African explorer rather than the wildlife enthusiast.

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