Alatash National Park is located in northwestern Ethiopia about 970 km from Addis Ababa, bordering to Sudan’s Dinder National Park. The Park was established in 2006, and it covers an area of 2666 square kilometers. The Park is named after Alatish River that has its source in the park and flows in a westerly direction to the Sudan. It forms an Eco tone between the high mountains of the Simen and the Sahel zone in the Sudan. The large Baobab tree at Omedla in the Park area housed the last Emperor, Haileselassie who ruled Ethiopia for about half a century for seven days inside its stem on his return to Ethiopia after victory over the colonialist Fascist Italia in 1941. The area is one of the green belt for the desert in the northern part of Ethiopia.