Tamou game reserve

	Tamou Game Reserve ; Réserve totale de faune de Tamou IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Location map of the Tamou game reserve north of the WAP complex
location	Tamou rural community , Say department , Tillabéri region , Niger
surface	777.4 km²
WDPA ID	2331
Geographical location	12 ° 36 ' N , 2 ° 17' E Coordinates: 12 ° 36 '0 " N , 2 ° 17' 24" E
Setup date	August 8, 1962

The Tamou Game Reserve ( French : Réserve totale de faune de Tamou ) is a game reserve in the Tamou municipality in Niger .

Location and characteristics

The Tamou Game Reserve extends over an area of 77,740 hectares and borders the W National Park to the south . It is located at the transition from the Sahel zone to the large Sudan landscape . The landscape is characterized by flat steppes , tiger bush , tree and shrub savannas in the depressions and gallery forests. The Tapoa and Diamangou are among the most important rivers .

Tamou game reserve

For a certain period of the year, the game reserve is a retreat for the wildlife of National Park W, in particular for Cape buffalo , African elephants , roan antelopes , lions , spotted hyenas and cheetahs . Near the river, there are a variety of bird life and occurrence of hippos , warthogs , patas monkey , Tantalus Vervet monkeys , Anubispavianen , caracal and gold wolves .

The woods in the steppes mainly include Guiera senegalensis and Kinkéliba , and the grasses, for example, Eragrostis tremula . In addition to Guiera senegalensis and Kinkéliba, Combretum nigricans and Combretum glutinosum can also be found in the tiger bush . The flora of the savannah includes Combretum nigricans , Combretum glutinosum , marula trees , desert dates and African baobabs . Trees such as Ficus platyphylla , Cola laurifolia , Anogeissus leiocarpa , Diospyros mespiliformis and tamarind trees grow in the gallery forests .

The Tamou Game Reserve is managed by the Directorate for Fauna, Hunting and Protected Areas of the Nigerien Ministry of the Environment. It falls into IUCN Category IV ( Biotope and Species Protection Area with Management ).

history

National Road 27 in the Tamou Game Reserve

The game reserve was established by a decree dated August 8, 1962 and originally covered an area of 147,000 hectares. New human settlements in the area were prohibited from the beginning, but the drought from 1974 to 1984 resulted in large-scale colonization of parts of the reserve. The settlements were legalized by a decree of August 12, 1976, with which the area of the protected area in the northeast and east was reduced by around 77,000 hectares. In the decades that followed, the proportion of agricultural land in the north-west and north-east of the Tamou Game Reserve rose sharply. The proportion of gallery forests in the entire reserve fell from 9 percent in 1975 to 0.9 percent in 2013.

literature

Michel Benoît: Statut et usages du sol en périphérie du parc national du "W" du Niger . Tome 5: Moli Haoussa et la “zone tampon” du parc national du “W” du Niger. Le cas d'un village de savane en zone protégée (Réserve Totale de Tamou). IRD, Orléans 2000 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF]).
F. Claro, H. Leriche, S. Van Syckle, T. Rabeil, S. Hergueta, A. Fournier, M. Alou: Survey of the cheetah in W National Park and Tamou fauna reserve, Niger . In: CAT News . No. 45 , 2006, p. 4-7 .
Barage Mamane, Garba Amadou, Moussa Barage, Jacques Comby, Jean Marie Karimoune Ambouta: Dynamique spatio-temporelle d'occupation du sol dans la Réserve Totale de Faune de Tamou dans un contexte de la variabilité climatique (Ouest du Niger) . In: International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences . Vol. 12, No. 4 , 2018, p. 1667-1687 ( ajol.info ).
Hadjara Mamoudou Amadou: Etude comparative de la diversité des peuplements ligneux des parcs arborés de la réserve totale de faune de Tamou (Niger). Cas de la zone protégée et de la zone non protégée . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2009.
TO McShane: Elephant-fire relationships in Combretum / Terminalia woodland in south-west Niger . In: African Journal of Ecology . Volume 25, No. 2 , June 1987, pp. 79-94 .

Web links

Commons : Tamou Game Reserve - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Parcs et réserves du Niger. Evaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des aires protegées . UICN / PACO, Gland / Ouagadougou 2010, ISBN 978-2-8317-1314-4 , pp. 15 .
↑ Barage Mamane, Garba Amadou, Moussa Barage, Jacques Comby, Jean Marie Karimoune Ambouta: Dynamique spatio-temporelle d'occupation du sol dans la Réserve Totale de Faune de Tamou dans un contexte de la variabilité climatique (Ouest du Niger) . In: International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences . Vol. 12, No. 4 , 2018, p. 1669 ( ajol.info [accessed February 24, 2019]).
^ Réserve totale de faune de Tamou in Niger. In: Protected Planet. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
^ Michel Benoît: Statut et usages du sol en périphérie du parc national du "W" du Niger . Tome 5: Moli Haoussa et la “zone tampon” du parc national du “W” du Niger. Le cas d'un village de savane en zone protégée (Réserve Totale de Tamou). IRD, Orléans 2000, p. 33 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed February 24, 2019]).
↑ Barage Mamane, Garba Amadou, Moussa Barage, Jacques Comby, Jean Marie Karimoune Ambouta: Dynamique spatio-temporelle d'occupation du sol dans la Réserve Totale de Faune de Tamou dans un contexte de la variabilité climatique (Ouest du Niger) . In: International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences . Vol. 12, No. 4 , 2018, p. 1675 and 1682 ( ajol.info [accessed February 24, 2019]).

[Parcs_15-1] Parcs et réserves du Niger. Evaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des aires protegées . UICN / PACO, Gland / Ouagadougou 2010, ISBN 978-2-8317-1314-4 , pp. 15 .

[2] Barage Mamane, Garba Amadou, Moussa Barage, Jacques Comby, Jean Marie Karimoune Ambouta: Dynamique spatio-temporelle d'occupation du sol dans la Réserve Totale de Faune de Tamou dans un contexte de la variabilité climatique (Ouest du Niger) . In: International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences . Vol. 12, No. 4 , 2018, p. 1669 ( ajol.info [accessed February 24, 2019]).

[3] Réserve totale de faune de Tamou in Niger. In: Protected Planet. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .

[4] Michel Benoît: Statut et usages du sol en périphérie du parc national du "W" du Niger . Tome 5: Moli Haoussa et la “zone tampon” du parc national du “W” du Niger. Le cas d'un village de savane en zone protégée (Réserve Totale de Tamou). IRD, Orléans 2000, p. 33 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed February 24, 2019]).

[5] Barage Mamane, Garba Amadou, Moussa Barage, Jacques Comby, Jean Marie Karimoune Ambouta: Dynamique spatio-temporelle d'occupation du sol dans la Réserve Totale de Faune de Tamou dans un contexte de la variabilité climatique (Ouest du Niger) . In: International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences . Vol. 12, No. 4 , 2018, p. 1675 and 1682 ( ajol.info [accessed February 24, 2019]).