Simien Mountains National Park is a national park in the Amhara Region of northern Ethiopia, established in 1969 to protect a dramatic landscape of jagged peaks, deep valleys and sheer escarpments formed by erosion on the Ethiopian Highlands, including Ras Dashen, the highest peak in Ethiopia. The park is a stronghold for several species found nowhere else on Earth, including the gelada, a grass-grazing primate that lives in large troops on the mountain grasslands, the Walia ibex, and the Ethiopian wolf. It was among the first sites inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, and it was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger from 1996 to 2017 due to population encroachment and habitat loss before its status was fully restored.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyEthiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority 1 FAQs
Why was Simien Mountains National Park once on the List of World Heritage in Danger?
It was listed in danger in 1996 over declines in native species and removed in 2017.
The park was one of the first sites to be made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, inscribed in 1978. In 1996 it was added to the List of World Heritage in Danger because of serious population declines of some of its characteristic native species. With the stabilization of those species' populations, the listing was removed in 2017.
Sources
1. Simien Mountains National Park - Wikipedia
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is the largest national park in Ethiopia
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1969
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412
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Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority
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II
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Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority
Infobox: established
1969
entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
It was among the first sites inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, and it was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger from 1996 to 2017 due to population encroachment and habitat loss before its status was fully restored.
View the SourceWikidata: Simien Mountains National Park
- Wikidata Q504315, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Part Of: Ethiopia, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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