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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve lies within the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot. It harbours an especially rich flora and fauna, and it is the home of more than 2000 vascular plant species, 680 vertebrate species, 132 of which are mammals, and to more than 2,500 invertebrate species. [1]
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is a site with outstanding universal value and was therefore nominated to the World Heritage List in 1981. [6] It has been listed as World Heritage in Danger since 1992. This site was added to Guinea's "Tentative List" for consideration for UNESCO World Heritage Site status on 29 March 2001, in the cultural ...
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve of Guinea and Ivory Coast covers significant portions of the Nimba Range. Geology. The Nimba Range is a narrow ridge extending ...
The protected areas of Guinea include national parks, a strict nature reserve, a faunal reserve, and classified forests. [1] National parks ... Mount Nimba; References
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve: Nzérékoré Region. Natural (ix) (x) 1981 Located on the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, Mount Nimba rises above the surrounding savannah.
The first site listed was Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve in 1982, as an extension of a site that was listed in Guinea the year prior. [4] The most recent listing were the Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire, in 2021. Two sites are listed for their cultural and three for their natural significance. [3]
Researchers found the animal laying eggs on a tree stump.
The Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is a 12 540 hectares-large UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site which is threatened by local subsistence pressures (hunting, farming, fire, logging, grazing) and potential future iron-ore mining (see here). The nature reserve shares its area between Forested Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire.