National Parks Africa » Boni National Reserve

Boni National Reserve is situated on Kenya’s eastern border with Somalia, with one corner just touching the Indian Ocean, in 1,339 square kilometres (535 square miles) of undeveloped wilderness. It is the only area in Kenya with coastal lowland groundwater forest. It was set aside partly as a buffer, and partly as a refuge for large populations of coastal topi and elephants so that the latter would journey down through neighbouring Dodori National Reserve to the seashore, often wading out at low tide to “Elephant Island”.