Shaba National Reserve, National Reserve in northern Kenya

Shaba National Reserve is a protected area in Isiolo County, northern Kenya, east of Samburu and Buffalo Springs reserves. It is semi-desert with isolated hills and springs, dominated by Shaba Hill, a volcano rising to 2,145 m with steep ravines at its foot. The Ewaso Ngiro river runs 34 km along the northern boundary.

Shaba was gazetted as a national reserve in 1974 and is administered by the Isiolo County Council. In January 1980 Joy Adamson, who had become known through the lioness Elsa and the film Born Free, was murdered in the reserve, where a monument now stands. In 2001 two thirds of the park were closed for four months while a CBS crew filmed Survivor: Africa; Mwandiga Productions paid the council 18 million shillings for the location.

The reserve's name is not tied to the Samburu people in the sources; its fame comes from film. Joy Adamson and the lioness Elsa, subjects of the 1966 film Born Free, made the park known, and Adamson was murdered in the reserve in January 1980, where a monument to her stands. In 2001 two thirds of the park were closed for four months for a CBS crew filming Survivor: Africa; Mwandiga Productions paid the Isiolo County Council 18 million shillings, more than annual admission fees.

Access is provided through two airstrips in the neighboring Samburu region, allowing connections to this remote location. Accommodation is available at a lodge within the reserve for visitors planning to stay multiple days.

Williams's lark, a poorly known and near-threatened bird, has not been recorded in any other protected area; it lives in the reserve's rocky lava semi-desert among low Barleria shrubs. The reserve also lies on the Palearctic migration route of the globally threatened lesser kestrel, a few of which pass through each year.