Mont Sângbé National Park

Mont Sângbé National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Location Côte d'Ivoire
Area 950 km²
Established 1975

Mont Sângbé National Park is a national park in Côte d'Ivoire, considered one of the world's principal national parks.[1] It acquired national park status in 1975.[1]

The National Park is located entirely within the Monts du Toura, a range of mountains west of the Sassandra River, taking in 14 peaks.[2] It covers an area of 95,000 ha (950 km2/360 sq m) north of Man, between Biankouma and Touba. The park consists of very densely vegetated savanna woodland with wildlife populations of elephants, buffaloes, warthog, antelopes and monkeys.[1][2]

Great apes population

Herbinger and Lia (unpublished, 2001) carried out a chimpanzee survey in Mont Sangbe National Park in May 2001, finding a population of 235-260 individuals in a survey area covering less than 5% of the park's total area, a population density of 5.7 chimpanzees per km2.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Encyclopaedia Britannica at Universitat de Valencia, accessed 25 December 2010
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies - Ivory Coast, accessed 25 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Herbinger, I. and Lia, D. 2001. Rapport de recensement de la population de chimpanzes au Mont Sangbe (Population survey of the chimpanzee population of Mont Sangbe). Unpublished report, 2001.

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Coordinates: 7°59′00″N 7°15′00″W / 7.9833°N 7.2500°W