Andre Felix National Park

The National Park André- Félix ( fr. Parc National André- Félix ) is located in north -eastern Central African Republic, in the prefecture of Vakaga about 80 km south of the city Birao. He was the first national park was established after gaining independence in 1960. It has an area of 1,700 km ² and is surrounded by a 4200 km ² large buffer zone, the Yata - Ngaya nature reserve. Its northeastern boundary is the Radom National Park in Sudan.

The National Park is located on 420-1130 meters above sea level in the north and the center of the Bongo Massif in the far southeast of the Chad Basin. Its surface is covered 51% of forests and 49% of bush savannah vegetation type from the Northern Congo forest - savanna. The dominant tree species belonging to the genus Isoberlinia spp., Terminalia spp. of.

Access and security of the region are complicated by strong poaching. In the park itself there is hardly any information. From the Birao area 228 bird species are known, of which about 180 species of breeding birds.

The most important mammal species in this region are now the elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, giraffes, crocodiles, ostriches, hippos, warthogs. Just outside the park, lives the only central African population of the Greater Kudu antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros ). To Avi - fauna include fox falcon (Falco alopex ) Rotkehlspint (Merops bulocki ), black breast furrows Schnabel ( Lybius rolleti ), gold beak Strangler ( Corvinella corvina ), piapia ( Ptilostomus afer), Gray Cap Eremomela ( Eremomela pusilla ), the purple gloss Stars ( Lamprotornis purpureus ), Braunwangenmahali ( Plocepasser superciliosus ) Auroraastrild ( Pytilia phoenicoptera ) Grauastrild ( Estrilda troglodytes) and Braunbürzelammer (Emberiza affinis ).

Source

• The National Park at Birdlife.org
• The National Park Touring Nature (French)

• National Park in Africa
• National Park in the Central African Republic