Batéké Plateau National Park

Batéké Plateau National Park is a national park in the Bateke Plateau,[1] southeastern Gabon covering 2,034 km2 (785 sq mi). Due to its purported universal cultural and natural significance, it was added onto the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on October 20, 2005.

Batéké Plateau National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Location within Gabon
LocationHaut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
Coordinates2.188°S 14.02°E / -2.188; 14.02[1]
Area2,034 km2 (785 sq mi)
Established2002
Governing bodyNational Agency for National Parks

The Bateke Plateau Forest Savanna strikingly depicts the landscape of Central Africa. This national park offers the greatest biodiversity, like nowhere else in the Congo Basin.[2]

Fauna

In 2016, a single male lion was recorded in the National Park. Genetic analysis of his hair samples revealed that is closely related to historical lion specimens from this area and the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, which grouped with lion samples from Namibia and Botswana.[3]

Commercial hunting on the plateau in order to satisfy the markets in Congo and Gabon, especially large mammals, is a significant threat to the local fauna.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Plateaux Batéké in Gabon". protectedplanet.net. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  2. "Bateke Plateaux Landscape". congo.wcs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  3. Barnett, R., Sinding, M.H., Vieira, F.G., Mendoza, M.L., Bonnet, M., Araldi, A., Kienast, I., Zambarda, A., Yamaguchi, N., Henschel, P., Gilbert, M.T. (2018). "No longer locally extinct? Tracing the origins of a lion (Panthera leo) living in Gabon". Conservation Genetics. 19 (3): 611–618. doi:10.1007/s10592-017-1039-2. PMC 6448349. PMID 31007636.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  4. "Bateke Plateaux Landscape". congo.wcs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-07.



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