As Lions are one of the main reasons people visit Queen Elizabeth National Park, this has been able to support conservation of Lions. Lions often venture outside the national park as there are no borders to the park, this causes disruption when the lions visit local communities and eat their livestock. The locals respond to the lions killing their livestock by poisoning them or killing them by other means e.g. using spears, therefore there is now an effort to protect the lions by attaching GPS collars to the alpha male/female in order to track the lions and retrieve them if they go into local villages. As well as $10 from what you pay goes towards compensating the local communities.
We started at 6.30am just after the lions had finished their night of hunting. In order to find the lions, you go off road (this is included in the price you pay at the start) so we also got to see many other animals that are also hard to spot such as Elephants.
As well as lions being collared, some leopards have also been collared. We were lucky enough to see one, which even came out of the bush it was hiding in!
Overall I would rate the national park 7/10 because there is loads of wildlife here and lots of activities to do, however there is too much of a focus on seeing lions which can raise hopes and make you disappointed if you don't see any but there are actually plenty of other animals to see.
We started at 6.30am just after the lions had finished their night of hunting. In order to find the lions, you go off road (this is included in the price you pay at the start) so we also got to see many other animals that are also hard to spot such as Elephants.
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| Our guide and a ranger trying to find the signal from the lions' collars. |
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| We only saw these 2 lions but it was very exciting! |
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We saw this elephant with only 1 tusk, the reason why was unknown but it suggested
that the elephant may have lost the tusk in a fight.
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Although you are more likely to see lions and leopards by going on safari with the Queen Elizabeth Predator Project we were told that not every time the predators are found so we were extremely lucky. After this we stopped off at the tourist market then left Queen Elizabeth national park.
Other animals we saw included water buffalo, bush buck and warthogs.
Overall I would rate the national park 7/10 because there is loads of wildlife here and lots of activities to do, however there is too much of a focus on seeing lions which can raise hopes and make you disappointed if you don't see any but there are actually plenty of other animals to see.
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