André-Félix National Park
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| Location: | Central African Republic | ||
| Specialty: | Vakaga | ||
| Next city: | Birao | ||
| Surface: | 1700 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1960 | ||
The André-Félix National Park ( French Parc National André-Félix ) is located in the northeast of the Central African Republic , in the Prefecture of Vakaga, approx. 80 km south of the city of Birao . It was the first national park to be established after gaining independence in 1960. It has an area of 1,700 km² and is surrounded by a 4,200 km² buffer zone, the Yata-Ngaya nature reserve. Its northeastern border is the Radom National Park in Sudan .
The national park is 420 to 1,130 meters above sea level, in the north and the center of the Bongo massif in the extreme southeast of the Chad basin . Its surface is covered to 51% by forests and 49% by bush savannahs of the vegetation type of the Northern Congo forest savannah . The dominant tree species belong to the genus Isoberlinia spp., Terminalia spp. on.
Access to and security of the area are made difficult by heavy poaching. Little information is available for the park itself. 228 bird species are known from the Birao area, 180 of them breeding bird species.
The main mammal species in this region today are the elephants , lions , leopards , buffalo , giraffes , crocodiles , ostriches , hippos , warthogs . The only Central African population of the greater kudu antelope ( Tragelaphus strepsiceros ) lives just outside the park . Part of Avi-fauna fox falcon ( Falco alopex ) Rotkehlspint ( Merops bulocki ), black-breasted barbet ( Lybius rolleti ), gold beak Shrike ( Corvinella corvina ), piapia ( Ptilostomus afer ), gray cap Eremomela ( Eremomela pusilla ), the purple gloss Stars ( Lamprotornis purpureus ) Braunwangenmahali ( Plocepasser superciliosus ), red-winged pytilia ( Pytilia phoenicoptera ), black-rumped waxbill ( Estrilda troglodytes ) and Braunbürzelammer ( Emberiza affinis ).
source
- The National Park at Birdlife.org (English)
- The National Park on Touring Nature (French)