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.
|