Public Event to Promote Bale Mountains National Park Conducted in Robe Town  

Addis Ababa ,December 5/2023(ENA)-Pursuant to the fact that Bale Mountains Park has been inscribed at UNESCO as a tangible world heritage, a public event intended to further promote the Park is has been held in Robe Town, Bale Zone of Oromia.

Senior government officials including Minister of Tourism Nasise Chali, Director of Ethiopian Wilde Life Authority, Kumera Kejella and relevant government officials and Aba Gedas, Hadha Sinquees and community representatives attended the promotional event. 
 
Institutions and persons who played a major role in processing the official inscription of the Park were awarded with prizes in recognition of their outstanding contributions.
 
Apart from offering recognition to those who contribute to the process of inscription of the Park, the public gathering has discussed on the major challenges that the Park is facing and also on ways and means of resolving them and marketing the Park as a major tourist attraction center in the country.
 
The participants of the event will reportedly pay a visit to the Park to assess the current condition of the Park.
 
Bale Mountains National Park boasts a spectacularly diverse landscape mosaic comprised of distinct ecosystems and habitats and associated biodiversity. 
 
The park covers an area of 215,000 hectares in the heart of the Bale-Arsi Massif in the south-eastern Ethiopian highlands in Oromia Regional State. 
 
It is the Africa’s largest area of afro-alpine habitat above 3,000 meter above sea level with numerous glacial lakes, wetlands and moorlands. 
 
The Park encloses several major rivers and is home to endemic wildlife resources, birds and indigenous plants. It is endowed with volcanic ridges and peaks tower above the plateau, most prominently Tullu Dimtu, Ethiopia’s second highest peak.  
 
 The Bale Mountains Park was officially inscribed as a tangible world heritage on the 45 UNSECO Conference held in Saudi Arabia,  last September.