Bouba Ndjida National Park

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Bouba Ndjida National Park
Bouba Ndjida National Park (Cameroon)
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Coordinates: 8 ° 37 ′ 25 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 24 ″  E
Location: North , Cameroon
Surface: 2200 km²
Founding: 1968
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The Bouba Njida National Park is a national park in the Northern Province of Cameroon , which to save the black rhino and the giant eland was established.

history

In 1932 the area of ​​Bouba-Ndjida was declared a fauna reserve. In 1947 the park was classified as a forest reserve. In 1968 it was converted into a national park . In December 2007, the national parks of Sena-Oura (Chad) and Bouba-Ndjida (Cameroon) were agreed as a cross-border biosphere reserve . The park belongs to IUCN category II.

Geography, geology and climate

The Bouba Ndjida National Park borders on Chad . Together with the Sena Oura National Park on the Chad side, the area is considered a bi-national national park. The main entrance to the park is in Koum about 45 kilometers east of Tchollire. The area is located on the banks of the Mayo Lidi River. The landscape is characterized by craggy rocks made of granite and gneiss .

The entire park extends over an area of ​​around 2200 km². The area is between 350 and 900 meters above sea level. The annual precipitation is 1200 mm.

Near the Bouba-Ndjida, between the Bénoué National Park, 90 kilometers away, and Bouba-Ndjida, there is an adobe palace built between 1805 and 1808 called Rey-Bouba, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The park takes its name from an ancestor of today's Baba (≈Sultan) Abdoulaye. This was called Bouba N'Djida and settled in the area from Mali in 1799 .

Fossils

Paleontologists found in the park dinosaurs - fossils . Similar to the spatially close and better-known fossils from Manangia in the same Department Mayo-Rey, discovered in 1988, they are around 120 million years old.

biodiversity

flora

The park consists mainly of open forest and bush savannah. Parts of the savannah contain elements of the Sahel zone . The flora consists of dense scrub and woody grassy landscape.

fauna

According to a study by tacking & Esser from 1979 found in the park Eland ( Taurotragus oryx ) at a density of 0.44 Eland / km². Today, the number of rare animals is estimated at 1,000 to 3,500. Other species of antelope in the park are the red hartebeest ( Alcelaphus buselaphus ), the roan antelope ( Hippotragus equinus ), the goby antelope , the waterbuck , the bleaching ram and various duikers . You can also find the black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis ) in the park . In addition to giraffes , there should be cheetahs . According to another study exist in the reserve a population of 30 to 50 lions and 41 to 100 hyenas. Elephants and Cape buffalo should also be present in the park. From January to March 2012, at least 500 elephants are said to have been killed by poachers.

In addition to mammals can be found with luck kinixys ( Kinixys belliana belliana ), the ptyodactylus Gecko ( Ptyodactylus hasselquisti ), the colorful Togoskink ( Mabuya perroteti ) or ball python ( Python regius ).

literature

  • Hans Bauer: Status of large carnivores in Bouba Ndjida National Park, Cameroon , African Journal of Ecology, Volume 45 Issue 3, 2007, pages 448-450
  • Hans Bauer: Report of a Lion Training and Survey In Northern Cameroon , CML Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2004
  • Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Emilie Varela: Le Petit Futé Guide de l'écotourisme , Petit Futé, 2008, ISBN 978-2746921580 , page 67ff
  • Désiré Foguekem1, Martin Ngankam Tchamba1, Mark Macallister, Pierre Ngassam, Mike Loomis: Application of ArcView Animal Movement Analysis Extension as a tool for monitoring elephant movement: preliminary results from northern Cameroon , Pachyderm No. 43, 2007 pp. 29–35 ( online )
  • ML Bosch: Enquete ecologique du Parc National de Bouba Ndjida , Ecole d'Amenagement de la Faune, Africa, Document de terrain 2, RAF / 74/056, 1976
  • Wally and Horst Hagen: The African national parks as elephant habitats , in: Vitus B. Dröscher , Rettet die Elefanten Afrikas , 1990, p. 215

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  1. ↑ Le parc national Bouba-ndjida ( Memento of April 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: monayah.com
  2. ↑ CONSERVATION IN SITU DES RESSOURCES GENETIQUES FORESTIERES AU CAMEROUN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (French)
  3. ^ Réunion de concertation pour le complexe Bouba Ndjida-Sena Oura . Réseau des Aires Protégées d'Afrique Centrale (RAPAC)
  4. ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Bouba Ndjida National Park (English)
  5. ↑ Le Program Aires Protégées Afrique du Center et de l'Ouest (PAPACO)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.papaco.org  
  6. ↑ Ben West: Cameroon 2nd. Bradt Travel Guides, 2008, ISBN 9781841622484 , p. 47. Limited preview in Google book search
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  9. ↑ World Database on Protected Areas  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unep-wcmc.org  
  10. ↑ Le Lamidat de Rey-Bouba on the UNESCO site (French)
  11. ↑ Fagus Voyages  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fagusvoyages.ch  
  12. ^ Info from the Consulate of Cameroon in Sydney
  13. ↑ Country information ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aat-gorilla.com
  14. ↑ Viajes Camerún
  15. ^ Page President Cameroon
  16. ↑ Tanzania Safaris & Tanzania Honeymoons with Tanzania Odyssey. (No longer available online.) In: tanzaniaodyssey.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011 ; accessed on January 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanzaniaodyssey.com
  17. ↑ Report Elandantilope ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wildlife-conservation.org
  18. ^ LP Van Lavieren, JD Esser: Numbers, distribution and habitat preference of large mammals in Bouba Ndjida National Park. 1979
  19. ↑ http://www.rocallion.org/documents/english/LionTrainingandSurvey.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rocallion.org  
  20. ↑ Parques Nacionales de Camerun. In: ikuska.com. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Hundreds of elephants killed in national park in Cameroon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. N24 news of March 18, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.n24.de