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     BIOTA West Africa Observatory Information Sheet:   Taï National Park

Hana river in Taï NP


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 Location

Southwestern Côte d’Ivoire

 Ethnic groups

Oubi, Bakwé, Kru-Men, Guéré

 Observatories/ Transects

 

 

Latitude

Longitude

Altitude (m)

 

PF T I.

Primary Forest

05°50'N

07°21'W

PF T II.

Primary Forest

05°50'N

07°21'W

PF T III.

Primary Forest

05°49'N

07°19'W

PF T IV.

Primary Forest

05°49'N

07°20'W

PF T V.

Primary Forest

05°49'N

07°20'W

PF T VI.

Primary Forest

05°49'N

07°20'W

SF T VII

Secondary Forest

05°51'N

07°23'W

SF T VIII

Secondary Forest

05°50'N

07°23'W

SF T IX

Secondary Forest

05°50'N

07°23'W

SF T X.

Secondary Forest

05°50'N

07°23'W

 



Taï National Park is one of the biggest and last remnants of pristine primary rain forest in West Africa and it provides various good infrastructure for ecological field work: The PACPNT tourist hotel in the south of the reserve (established by PACPNT, KFW and GTZ) and the Ecological field station (SRET) of the CRE, situated in the central western part of the National Park and originally established by French scientists.
Selective logging and cash crop plantations along the periphery offer the possibility to directly compare untouched rainforest with degraded sites. By doing so human impact can be quantified, indicator species selected and monitoring conducted. The subprojects working on remote sensing, climatology, botany and zoology were working in Taï-NP during the pilot phase of BIOTA-West.



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