Introducing Chobe National Park

Adjacent to the Okavango Delta  in Botswana, the Chobe National Park is a diverse region ranging from the border at the Chobe River, to the now dry Savute Channel, and beyond to the borders of the Moremi Game Reserve / Okavango Delta. The Chobe National Park is famous for its high concentration of elephant.  More than 120 000 elephants and large numbers of buffalo, antelope and predators can be found here.  Bird watching is excellent in Southern Africa's Chobe National Park, with many migrant birds visiting from November to March.

The Chobe National Park in Botswana is probably best known for its magnificent elephant population.  This region is home to the highest elephant concentration of Africa.  The elephant population in the Chobe National Park seems to have solidly increased since 1990.  Elephants which are home in the Chobe National Park are the Kalahari elephants which are the largest in size of all known elephant populations. Yet they are characterized by rather brittle ivory and short tusks, perhaps due to calcium deficiency in the soils.

Damage caused by the high numbers of elephants can be seen in most areas of the Chobe National Park, Botswana.  During the dry season, these elephants sojourn in the Chobe River and the Linyanti River areas. During the rain season in Botswana, the elephants make a 200km migration to the southeast stretch of the Chobe National Park  Their distribution zone however outreaches the Chobe National Park and spreads to northwestern Zimbabwe.

The Chobe National Park, in northwest Botswana, has one of the largest game concentration in Africa continent. By size, this is the third largest park of the country, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park, and is the most diverse of them.  The Chobe National Park was also Botswana's first national park.