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<Kidepo Game Reserve was established in 1975. Three quarters of Kidepo Valley Reserve Park is in Bira, which is inhabited by the Ketebo people, which also cut across to the Kidepo Valley National Park in Uganda which is inhabited by the Mening in Uganda which are also the Ketebo. Kidepo come from the Ketebo word “Kidebo”, which mean “care us” and was miswritten by the British colonial especially Ion Ross, the first white game warden who establish the park in 1958 by forcing the Ketebo out of the areas such as, Kalabe (current Apoka), Narus, Tongobore, Losigiria, Lonyili, Tabak lo Taruha/Nataba Anataruk, Taban lo Lokure, Lorife, Toomodo, Koriang, Morunyang, and so forth. Currently, the Kidepo Valley Reserve Park headquarters is in Bira with the outpost in Kamulach in Bira and the proposed Headquarters in Naitahapel, Bira.

However, Sudan deployed some game rangers in Bira during 1976 – 1983 immediately the war broke out in 1983. With an area of 1200 Km2 this reserve   is located 4° 04'N and 33° 28'E on the South Sudan/Uganda border where it forms a contiguous ecosystem with Uganda's Kidepo Valley National Park. Main mammal species of the reserve include, among others, elephants, wild dogs, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, lesser kudu, buffalos, and Giraffe. The present conservation status of these and many other mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians is not known. It is likely that due to the protracted war and many other conservation challenges listed below the numbers of wildlife have been reduced in a similar way as those in 80ma, Nimule and Southern National Parks. 3.2.1.	Conservation Challenges Facing Kidepo Game Reserve (a) Area is full of illegal guns. (b)	Livestock grazing by pastoral communities. (c)	Encroachment by Ugandan (d)	Massive poaching especially when SPLA forces came to the area. (e)	Lack of wildlife protection forces and conservation law enforcement in the area. (f)	Possible transmission of diseases from livestock to wildlife and vice versa. (I)	Cattle rustling and insecurity