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National park / Bizerte

Ichkeul National Park

National park
Bizerte
Area
126KM2
Protected
1980

A shallow brackish lake and its marshes under the limestone bulk of Jebel Ichkeul, the last survivor of a chain of North African lakes that once drew wintering waterfowl from across Europe. Hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, coots and flamingos use it in winter; an ecomuseum at the entrance explains the hydrology and the damage done by upstream dams.

Rules

A PERMIT IS NEEDED TO VISIT

PERMIT
No permit for the visitor entrance and the museum; guided group visits are usually cleared in advance with the DGF or the ANPE.
GUIDE
Not required. Park staff guide groups on request, and a guide helps for the bird hides and the hill paths.
FEE
About 5 TND, covering the park and the ecomuseum.
SEASON
Open all year. Waterbirds peak from November to February; the lake shrinks and turns saline in late summer.
RULES
Stay on the marked tracks around the lake shore and the Jebel; the reedbeds and the flooded margins are off limits to vehicles.

Good to know

Habitat
Brackish lake, seasonally flooded marsh, reedbeds and a limestone massif rising to 511 m
Wildlife
Wintering ducks, greylag geese, coots and greater flamingos; water buffalo, wild boar and porcupine on the Jebel
Status
UNESCO World Heritage Site and Ramsar site 213, both since 1980; on the World Heritage in Danger list from 1996 to 2006
Getting there
About 25 km southwest of Bizerte, near Tinja

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Photographs

Sources

Photos: Oussama lahiani (CC BY-SA 3.0), Anisbgs (CC BY-SA 3.0), Hamed gamaoun (CC BY-SA 3.0)