Lope Okanda National Park
The lopé okanda ecosystem and landscape was declared a unesco world heritage site in 2007.
Lope okanda national park. Has several national parks including lopé national park originally lopé okanda wildlife reserve founded in 1946 in the centre of the country. When the country s president declared the creation of 13 national parks in 2002 lope national park was included. The national park of lope okanda jewel of gabon. Lope national park is situated right in the centre of gabon and was the first protected area following the creation of the lope okanda wildlife reserve in 1946.
Vidéo aérienne du parc national de la lopé au gabon. Lopé national park is found in central gabon which is lined with dense gallery forest that covers an estimated area of 4910 square kilometers. The park contains a small research station named as mikongo and run by the zoological society london based in the village known as mikongo from which it gets its name. Lopé national park is in the central highlands region of gabon.
Lope okanda national park gabon. The park and related archaeological sites referred to as the ecosystem and relict cultural landscape of lopé okanda were collectively designated a unesco world heritage site in 2007. In 2007 the lopé okanda landscape was added to the world heritage list by unesco. The lopé okanda national park displays remarkable evidence for settlement stretching over 400 000 years from the palaeolithic through the neolithic and iron age to the present day bantu and pygmy peoples.
2007 criteria mixed site. Such a wilderness composed of savannahs interspersed with forest galleries is nearly unique in the congo basin. In 2007 the park was added on the list of unesco world heritage site. 4 913 km 2 inscribed.
The lope national park supports an extraordinary diversity of wildlife including forest buffalo which are shown in one the grasslands slideshow of the ecosystem and relict cultural landscape of lope okanda. This park protects one of the most diverse tracts of rainforest in the congo basin interspersed with very ancient man made savannas creating a mosaic of grasslands and forests. This silverback thinks this intruder in the mirror his own reflection comes to steal his wives duration. X biodiversity and cultural criteria iii iv values.
Apart from its ecological value lope np is also an archeological site with rock carvings dating from the iron age.