Comoé National Park

The National Park Comoé (French Parc national de la Comoé ), named after the river that flows through the park, located in the north -east of the Ivory Coast at an altitude 120-660 m and is 11,500 km ², the largest national park in South Africa. With a north- south extent of about 120 km, it includes a wide range of vegetation types from the Sudan vegetation zone in the north to the Guinea zone in the southwest. He was inducted in the list of the UNESCO World Heritage in 1983.

Flora

The vegetation is strongly influenced by anthropogenic fire at the end of the dry season. Thus, the occurrence of semi- evergreen forests is prevented and savannas, which cover about 85 % of the area of the park encouraged. This area can be a bimodal rainy season with a maximum in April / May and watch another in August / September. The total rainfall is about 1000 to 1200 mm per year. During the dry season, about October to March rainfall is very rare and unpredictable. In the south, the park is bordered by gallery forests.

Fauna

In Comoé National Park there are many Bovidae as Kobantilopen, bongos, waterbuck, roan antelope, and especially many Oribis, also some species of monkeys. In addition to good populations of leopards still single lion to occur.

Threat

Due to the civil war in the Ivory Coast, poaching has increased dramatically, and the unique wildlife of the Comoé National Park is under serious threat. In 2003 he was therefore taken up by Welterbekommittee in the Red List of World Heritage in Danger.