Mbe Mountains Community Wildlife Sanctuary
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| Location: | Nigeria | ||
| Specialty: | Region Cross River | ||
| Next city: | Buoy , calabar | ||
| Surface: | 85 km² | ||
| Founding: | 2005 | ||
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The Mbe Mountains Community Wildlife Sanctuary is a communal community nature reserve of nine villages in the northeast of the Nigerian state of Cross River . It occupies an area of 85 km² in the administrative area of the greater municipality of Boje , in the up to 900 meter high Mbe Mountains. The nature reserve was founded in 2005 on the initiative of the village communities Abo Ogbagante, Abo Mkpang, Abo Obisu, Bamba, Bokalum, Kanyang I, Kanyang II, Wula Ekumpuo and Wula Mgbaesuo with the support of various non-governmental organizations such as the Wildlife Conservation Society Nigeria (WCS) and Mountain Gorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe e. V. The nature reserve is administered by the Conservation Association of the Mbe Mountains (CAMM), founded in 2006 with the support of the WCS and the Cross River State Forestry Commission (CRSFC). CAMM operates the five camps from which the twelve park rangers paid by the WCS undertake their patrols. The patrols reach an annual length of over 2,000 km. In addition, radio broadcasts in the local Bokyi language , workshops at schools and the conversion of hunters to farmers are to try to expand knowledge of nature conservation and to raise awareness of nature conservation among the regional population.
The Mbe Mountain Community Wildlife Sanctuary connects the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary and Afi River Forest Reserve, in the west, with the Okwangwo sector of Cross River National Park and Takamanda National Park in Cameroon , in the east. The Mbe Mountains are overgrown with a dense tropical rainforest and are considered an important retreat and connection area for the large primates living in the region . Around 25-30 Cross River gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla diehli ) live in this mountain region . The gorilla population is concentrated in the inaccessible central areas of the mountainous region. With the help of genetic studies it was also possible to prove that the gorillas of the Mbe Mountains are related to the other populations in the region. Other important endangered partly animal species in the Mbe Mountains are the Drill ( Mandrillus leucophaeus ), Nigerian-Cameroonian chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ellioti ), African palm civet ( Nandinia binotata ), African civet ( Civettictis civetta ), hogs ( Potamochoerus porcus ), Ogilby-Ducker or Fernando-Po duiker ( Cephalophus ogilbyi ), yellow-bridge duiker or giant duiker ( Cephalophus silvicultor ), blue duiker ( Philantomba monticola ) and, in the flatter southern sector, the African forest elephant ( Loxodonta cyclotis ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report of the Mbe Mountains Forum US-AID 2005 (PDF document; 456 kB) (English)
- ↑ Mbe Mountains Patrol Report Christmas 2007-08 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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. (PDF document; 109 kB) (English)
- ↑ Mbe Mountains Community Wildlife Sanctuary on WCS Nigeria (English)
- ↑ Mbe-Berge: From hunter to small business owner ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Berggorilla.de (German)
- ↑ Mbe-Berge census of Cross-River-Gorillas ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2013 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. on Berggorilla.de (German)
- ↑ Andrew Dunn: Conservation in the Mbe Mountains, Nigeria ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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. Gorilla Journal June 2008 (PDF document; 17 kB) (English)
- ↑ Mbe Mountains Patrol Report: Christmas 2007-2008 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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. (PDF document; 109 kB) (English)
