{"id":9170,"date":"2018-01-29T18:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:13:45","slug":"national-parks-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/national-parks-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"National Parks in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigeria is a beautiful country and it is the home to various diverse species like lions, hyenas, antelopes, crocodile, chimpanzees, hippopotamus, leopards, birds and many more.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Example of national parks in Nigeria is\u00a0Cross River national park, Gashaka-Gumti national park, \u00a0Kamuku national park, Okomu national park, Old Oyo national park,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Yankari Game Reserve and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kainji Lake national park. These various National parks in Nigeria allows one to appreciate nature in the form of different species in their natural habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/10-fun-places-to-be-in-lagos-island\/\">10 fun places to be in Lagos<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Cross River national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cross River national park was established in 1991 at<\/span><b> Cross River State<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria. It is the largest <\/span><b>rainforest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Nigeria and it <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">serves as home to many endangered species. Within the national park, there is the <\/span><b>Agbokim Falls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is a seven-channel stream.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Gashaka Gumti national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gashaka Gumti national park was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">established in 1991 at\u00a0<\/span><b>Taraba and Adamawa states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria.It is the largest national park in Nigeria. The park has <\/span><b>grasslands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Chappal Waddii<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is known as the mountain of death with an elevation of 7,936 feet. The \u00a0<\/span><b>Chappal Waddii<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has the highest mountain peak in Nigeria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/10-fun-places-to-be-in-lagos-island\/\">10 fun places to be in Lagos Island<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Kainji lake national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kainji lake national park was established in 1979 at <\/span><b>Niger and Kwara states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria. It is the second largest park in Nigeria. Within the park, there are the<\/span><b> Kainji lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Borgu and Zugurma game reserves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park is home to a \u00a0variety of wildlife like baboons, hippopotamus, hyenas and many more. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Kamuku national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Kamuku National Park was established<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1999 at <\/span><b>Kaduna State<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria. The vegetation at the park is <\/span><b>Savannah.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park is home to birds, elephants, roan antelopes,hyenas and jackals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the park is the <\/span><b>Parnono Shrine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/lagos\/lekki\/flat-apartment\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;FLATS FOR SALE IN LEKKI&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;4&quot;:[null,2,11982760],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">FLATS FOR SALE IN LEKKI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Okomu national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okomu national park was established in 1999 at<\/span><b> Edo State<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria.It is the second largest <\/span><b>rainforest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Nigeria. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the park are tree houses for over 150 bird species and the <\/span>Okomu river.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Old Oyo national park<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Old Oyo national park was established in 1991 at<\/span><b> Oyo and Kwara states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria. Within the park are the <\/span><b>Ogun river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> Agbaku cave<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <b>Oke Agbele rock formations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the largest collection of archaeological and cultural sites of the <\/span><b>Old Oyo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent\/lagos\/ogba\/mini-flat\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;MINI FLAT FOR RENT IN OGBA&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;4&quot;:[null,2,7775663],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">MINI FLAT FOR RENT IN OGBA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Yankari game reserve<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yankari was established 1962 at <\/span><b>Bauchi state<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nigeria. Yankari has the largest population of elephants in West Africa. Within the park, there is the <\/span><b>Wikki camp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, four thermal spring and many species of birds and other endangered animals. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is a beautiful country and it is the home to various diverse species like lions, hyenas, antelopes, crocodile, chimpanzees, hippopotamus, leopards, birds and many more. Example of national parks in Nigeria is\u00a0Cross River national park, Gashaka-Gumti national park, \u00a0Kamuku national park, Okomu national park, Old Oyo national park,\u00a0Yankari Game Reserve and Kainji Lake national &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[467],"tags":[2173,2174,2175,395],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-advice","tag-national-park-in-nigeria-pdf","tag-nigerian-national-park-service","tag-yankari-game-reserve-national-park","tag-yankari-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}