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AFRICAN GAME PRESERVES

BRITISH EAST AFRICA: 

1.[P] The Athi Plains Preserve.—­This is situated between the Uganda Railway and the boundary of German East Africa.  Its northern boundary is one mile north of the railway track.  It is about 215 miles long east and west by 105 miles from north to south, and its area is about 13,000 square miles.  It is truly a great preserve, and worthy of the plains fauna that it is specially intended to perpetuate.

[Footnote P:  These numbers refer to corresponding numbers on the map of Africa.]

2. The Jubaland Preserve.—­This preserve lies northwest of Mount Kenia.  Its southwestern corner is near Lake Baringo, the Laikipia Escarpment is its western boundary up to Mt.  Nyiro, and from that point its northern boundary runs 225 miles to Marsabit Lake.  From that point the boundary runs south-by-west to the Guaso Nyiro River, which forms the eastern half of the southern boundary.  Its total area appears to be about 13,000 square miles.

In addition to the two great preserves described above the government of British East Africa has established on the Uasin Gishu Plateau a centrally located sanctuary for elands, roan antelopes and hippopotamii.  There is also a small special rhinoceros preserve about fifty miles southeastward of Nairobi, around Kiu station, on the railway.

EGYPTIAN SUDAN: 

3.  A great nameless sanctuary for wild life exists on the eastern bank of the Nile, comprising the whole territory between the main stream, the Blue Nile and Abyssinia.  Its length (north and south) is 215 miles, and its width is about 125 miles; which means a total area of about 26,875 square miles.  Natives and others living within this sanctuary may hunt therein—­if they can procure licenses.

SOMALILAND: 

4. Hargeis Reserve, about 1,800 square miles.

5. Mirso Reserve, about 300 square miles.

UGANDA: 

6. Budonga Forest Reserve.—­This small reserve embraces the whole eastern shore and hinterland of Lake Albert Nyanza, and is shaped like a new moon.

7. Toro Reserve.—­This small reserve lies between Lakes Albert Nyanza and Albert Edward Nyanza, touching both.

NYASALAND, OR THE BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.—­A small territory, but remarkably well stocked with game.

8. Elephant Marsh Preserve.—­A small area in the extreme southern end of the Protectorate, on both sides of the Shire River, chiefly for buffalo.

9. Angoniland Reserve.—­This was created especially to preserve about one thousand elephants.  It is forty miles west of the southwestern arm of Lake Nyasa.