Campo Ma'an National Park

Campo Ma'an National Park
Coordinates: 2 ° 20 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 28.4"  E
Location:	Sud , Cameroon
Surface:	2640 km²
Founding:	1932

The Campo Ma'an National Park is a national park in the southwest of Cameroon. The 2640 km² park is characterized by a dense, untreated tropical rainforest with a high degree of biodiversity .

location

The park can be reached by traveling around 150 kilometers south of Kribi towards Equatorial Guinea . However, the dirt road towards the border town of Campo is in poor condition. The park borders the Atlantic Ocean ( Gulf of Guinea ).

history

The Campo Ma'an National Park was established as a reserve as early as 1932. In 1980 a ma'an reforestation zone was established. In 1999 the park was classified as a biosphere reserve.

The area consists of:

• 34% designated national park
• 25.5% agro-forestry zone
• 31.4% standardized forestry units
• 7.5% rubber and palm oil plantations
• 1.6% protected forest

Flora and fauna

The area of ​​Campo Ma'an has an immense range of different species and is a sanctuary for a variety of taxonomic endemics .

Thus the area is characterized by an enormous variety of plants and lots of animals. Over 1500 plant species have been counted in the park. Ornithologists have invitarized at least 300 birds .

Coastal forest and sub-mountainous forest with heights up to 800 meters above sea level can be found in Campo-Ma'an.

The park is said to have forest elephants , lowland gorillas , chimpanzees , hippos , giant pangolins , black colobus monkeys , mandrills and leopards .

In Ntem -flow be found crocodiles and sea turtles .

population

The national park is home to the Bagyeli - Pygmies . However, the establishment of the Campo Ma'an National Park by the nature conservation organization Tropenbos in 1999 meant that the culture of the Bagyeli pygmies living in this area was threatened and the local population was impoverished. The exact effects are described in a study by the Forest Peoples Program. Originally, the foundation was supposed to compensate for the natural destruction caused by the Exxon oil company's Chad-Cameroon pipeline . After the pipeline had already dismembered the home of the pygmy people in 1999, they are no longer even allowed to enter certain parts of the rainforest. In the rest of the area they are forbidden from traditional hunting or collecting medicinal plants.

Other ethnic groups of Pygmies living there are Bulu , Mvae, and Ntumu .

In addition to the pygmies, the Bantu ethnic group also lives in the area .

literature

• John Nelson, Lindsay Hossack, Indigenous peoples and protected areas in Africa - From principles to practice , ISBN 0-9544252-1-9 , FPP, 2003
• MGP Tchouto, WF De Boer, JJFE De Wilde, LJG Van der Maesen: Diversity Patterns in the Flora of the Campo-Ma'an Rain Forest, Cameroon: Do Tree Species Tell it All? In: Biodiversity and Conservation . tape 15 , no. 4 , April 2006, p. 1353-1374 , doi : 10.1007 / s10531-005-5394-9 .

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ ^{a b} Oasis Travel. Retrieved December 14, 2008 . 
4. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Tentative Lists. Retrieved December 14, 2008 . 
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6. ↑ http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/6134
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8. ↑ http://www.eco-world.de/scripts/basics/econews/basics.prg?a_no=9281&main=drucken
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10. ↑ http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/index.php?id=3064
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