History of Lake Nakuru National Park

endangered giraffes and rhinoceros.

•    1957 - declared a conservation area

•    1961 - Southern two thirds designated a bird sanctuary

•    1964 - the bird sanctuary was extended covering the whole lake and a small strip of land around it

•    1968 - gazetted as National Park

•    1977- a number of Rothschild Giraffes trans located to the park from western Kenya for their protection

•    1984 - established as first government managed rhino sanctuary

•    1986 - an electric fence was erected around the park to replace the earlier chainlink

•    1987 - the park was declared a rhino sanctuary.

•    1990 - the lake was designated as a Ramsar  site

•    2009 - designated as IBA (450 identified bird species)

•    2011 – Designated by UNESCO  as one of the Kenya Lakes System (Lakes Elementaita, Nakuru and Bogoria) World Heritage Sites