- Mont Sângbé National Park
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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 sq km/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.[2][1]
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Herbinger and Lia (unpublished, 2001) carried out a chimpanzee survey in Mont Sangbe National Park in May 2001, finding a population of 235-260 individuals in a survey area covering less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
- ^ a b c Encyclopaedia Britannica at Universitat de Valencia, accessed 25 December 2010
- ^ a b U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies - Ivory Coast, accessed 25 December 2010.
- ^ 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 Unpublished report, 2001.
External links
- Language, Gender and Sustainability Project Toura Map, accessed 25 December 2010.
National Parks of Côte d'Ivoire 
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