Dinder National Park: is one of the oldest protected areas in Africa. It was established in 1935 following the London Convention of 1933 for the conservation of African flora and fauna. Its boundaries were extended to the north and west in 1986, . Dinder National Park became a biosphere reserve in 1979 as a greater emphasis on community engagement emerged as essential, both for sedentary and nomadic peoples. People live off and reside within the buffer and transitional zones of Dinder National Park across all three states under which the park falls (Gedarif, Blue Nile and Sennar states). Those villages within the park generally have up to five kilometres in which they can conduct limited activities, including livestock grazing and small-scale cropping. There are ten villages inside the park (one – Magano – being the village found deepest within this zone), and 38 villages in the transitional zone of the park (mostly in Gedaref and Blue Nile states
