Campo Ma'an National Park

Campo Ma'an National Park is a 264,064 hectare[1] national park of Cameroon, located in the South Region in the Océan department. The combined area for the national park and the buffer zone surrounding the park is approximately 700,000 hectares.[1]

Campo Ma'an National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
LocationCameroon
Coordinates2°21′N 9°59′E
Area26.4 km2 (10 sq mi)
A Peters's Duiker antelope

The Campo Wildlife Reserve established in 1932 and the Ma’an Production Reserve set up in 1980 were combined to form this park in the year 2000[2] as a compensation for the damage caused to the ecosystem due laying of the oil pipeline in Cameroon. The park area includes four logging concessions, an agro-forestry zone, and an agro-industrial zone known for rubber and palms. The biodiversity of the area has wide range of plants and animals species including several taxonomic endemics. The mammal species reported are 87 including elephants, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, hippos, giant pangolins, black colobus, mandrills and leopards. Reptile species reported are 122, and fish species are 165. It is also one of the 33 bird identified areas in the south western corner of Cameroon, bordering with Equatorial Guinea on the south and the Atlantic Ocean to its west and has more than 300 bird species.[3][4] The park is subject to many threats to its ecosystem, mainly due to logging, poaching, agricultural activities and coastal development.[5]

See also

References
  1. Campo-Ma’an National Park, Cameroon from WWF. Accessed December 2009.
  2. Mesmin Tchindjang; Clair Réné Banga; Appolinaire Nankam; Jean Sylvestre Makak (2001). "Mapping of Protected Areas Evolution in Cameroon from the Beginning to 2000: Lesson to Learn and Perspectives" (PDF). Table 1 World Wildlife Organization. World Wildlife Organization. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. "Important Bird Areas". African Bird Club. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. "Campo Ma'an complex". BirdLife International. Retrieved 13 September 2018. A total of 200 species have been recorded from the National Park, and more than another 100 from adjacent buffer zones
  5. "The saving of Campo Ma'an National Park". WWF Global. WWF. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.


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