Western Area Forest Reserve

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Coordinates: 8°20′26″N, 13°9′28″W Western Area Forest Reserve is a non-hunting forest reserves in Sierra Leone. The area became a forest reserve in 1916 and has an area of 17,688 hectares (0.17 km²).[1] The Reserve is home to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary which was founded in 1995. [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ World Database on Protected Areas: Information Sheet, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, retrieved on 09 November 2007
  2. ^ The Sanctuary Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (2007), retrieved on 09 November 2007

[edit] See also

Protected areas of Sierra Leone


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