Tafi Atome Monkey Conservation Reserve
Coordinates: 6 ° 54 '18 " N , 0 ° 23' 12.6" E
The Tafi Atome Monkey Conservation Reserve is an animal reserve and one of the national parks in Ghana in the Volta Region .
location
The reserve is located in eastern Ghana in the vicinity of the village of Tafi-Atome, about 230 kilometers northeast of the capital Accra and 35 kilometers north-northwest of the district capital Ho .
description
The reserve is based on a decree of the regional authority and takes into account the religious worship of certain species of monkeys. The only Ghanaian population of the nominate form ( Cercopithecus mona mona ) of the monkey cat lives here . The meerkats can be seen as part of an ecotourism project on the edge of the village and on guided tours through the tropical forest .
Tafi Atome has received several awards from the Ghanaian tourism authority, for example as the “best-kept community-based Ecotourism Project” and the cleanest village in Ghana.
See also
swell
- Philip Briggs: Ghana. Updated by Katherine Rushton. 4th edition. Bradt Publishing, Chalfont St Peter 2007, ISBN 978-1-84162-205-7 ( The Bradt Travel Guides ).
- Monkey sancutary and cultural village - information brochure (PDF file; 2.51 MB)
Web links
- US military map of Togo and Ghana, sheet NB 31-5, Washington 1999 The location Tafi- Atome is at the top left of the map
- Tafi Atome Monkey Protection Reserve , April 2016
