Wednesday 3 August 2016

Sangha Trinational

This site encompasses three contiguous national parks in three countries.
The young gorilla in this postcard is one of the 2000 living in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve

Gorilla in Dzanga-Sangha Reserve
This postcard was sent by Emerich

The Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve is a protected reserve of southwestern Central African Republic. It was established in 1990 and covers 6865.54 km2. It is one of several areas within the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas (DSCPA), each within its own protective status and along with Lobéké National Park in Cameroon and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in Republic of Congo, it is part of the Sangha Trinational Landscape.
Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve is ecologically rich and contains a variety of megafauna such as western lowland gorillasAfrican forest elephantsbongo antelopesAfrican forest buffalos, white-nosed and moustache monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, bushpigsduikers, and many different bird species. Of particular note, though, are the western lowland gorillas and forest elephants. Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve has one of the highest population densities of gorillas in the world with an estimated 2000 of them living within the reserve's precincts. - in: wikipedia

I'm still missing postcards from Cameroon and Congo

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