Sangha Trinational In Cameroon

Sangha Trinational In Cameroon

Short Report

Located in the north-western Congo Bassin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, the site consists of three successive national parks amounting to approximately 750,000 ha. Much of the site is affected by human activities and features a wide range of moist tropical forests with rich flora and fauna, including Nile crocodiles and goliath tigerfish, a large carnivores. Forest thinning support herbaceous species and Sangha is the home of large populations of forest elephants endangered western lowland gorillas, and endangered chimpanzee. The site environment has preserved the continuation of the ecological and evolutionary processes on a massive scale and large biodiversity, including many endangered species.

Wonderful Universal Importance

Sangha Trinational (TNS) is a cross-border protected complex in the North-west of the Congo Basin where Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo. TNS includes three successive national parks in total a legally defined area of 746,309 hectares. These are Lobéké National Park in Cameroon, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of the Congo. Dzanga-Ndoki National Park consists of two separate units. The parks are embedded in a much larger forest landscape, sometimes referred to as the TNS Landscape. A buffer zone of 1,787,950 hectares is located in recognition of the importance of the wider landscape and its inhabitants on the future of the property. The buffer zone inlcudes Dzanga-Sanga Forest Reserve in the Central African Republic, which provides the connection between the two units of Dzanga-Ndoki National Park.

Natural values and features include the permanent ecological and evolutionary processes in a predominantly intact forest landscape on a very large scale. Numerous and diverse habitats, including tropical forests consists of deciduous and evergreen species, a large diversity of wetlands, including swamp forests and periodically flooded forests and many types of forest thinning of large conservation continue to be connected to a landscape level. This mosaic of ecosystems ports viable populations of complete faunal and floral assemblages, including top predators and rare and endangered species, such as forest elephants, Gorillas, chimpanzees, and various antelope species, such as the East African Sitatunga'Es the characteristic Bongo.

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