Qualla: Bui National Park https://qualla.com/bui-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/q/r/bui-national-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bui National Park https://qualla.com/bui-national-park Bui National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/bui-national-park/ Photo credit Knowledge and philosophy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hippos surface at dusk. Their ears and nostrils break the water of the Black Volta first, then the massive bulk of their bodies rises into view, glistening in the last light. Bui National Park holds the larger of Ghana's only two viable hippopotamus populations, an estimated 250 to 350 animals that have made this stretch of river their home. But since 2013, the river the hippos depend on has also been a reservoir. The Bui Dam, a 400-megawatt hydroelectric project, inundated roughly 20% of the park, drowning forest and savanna beneath 444 square kilometers of water. What remains is a landscape caught between conservation and development, where hippos share their habitat with turbines and the park's future depends on how well those competing demands are managed.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/q/r/bui-national-park-wp/ecqr-bui-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bui National Park: A River Through the Middle https://qualla.com/bui-national-park/ Photo credit Knowledge and philosophy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Black Volta bisects Bui National Park, dividing its 1,821 square kilometers between the Bono Region to the west and the Savannah Region to the east. To the west, the park presses against the Ivory Coast border. The river, which originates in Burkina Faso and flows south to jo...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/q/r/bui-national-park-wp/ecqr-bui-national-park-a-river-through-the-middle.mp3 0:06 2 full Bui National Park: Wings Over the Savanna https://qualla.com/bui-national-park/ Photo credit Knowledge and philosophy, CC BY-SA 4.0. BirdLife International designated Bui National Park an Important Bird Area for good reason. Over 250 species have been recorded in its woodland savanna, a tally that includes several species difficult to find elsewhere. Violet turacos move through the canopy in flashes of iridesc...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/q/r/bui-national-park-wp/ecqr-bui-national-park-wings-over-the-savanna.mp3 0:06 3 full Bui National Park: The Dam's Bargain https://qualla.com/bui-national-park/ Photo credit Knowledge and philosophy, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ghana needed electricity. The Bui Dam, constructed between 2007 and 2013, provides 400 megawatts of hydroelectric power through three Francis turbine units and a smaller turbinette. The reservoir behind it holds 12.57 billion cubic meters of water and stretches an average of 40 k...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/q/r/bui-national-park-wp/ecqr-bui-national-park-the-dams-bargain.mp3 0:06 4 full Bui National Park: What Endures https://qualla.com/bui-national-park/ Photo credit Knowledge and philosophy, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the top of Sunshine Mountain, the view across Bui National Park takes in the full sweep of what this landscape has become: reservoir glinting between forested hills, savanna stretching east toward the flatlands of the Savannah Region, and somewhere below, hippos moving throu...

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