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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (French: Réserve naturelle intégrale du Mont Nimba) is a protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in both Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, extending over a total of area of 175.4 km 2 (43,300 acres), with 125.4 km 2 (31,000 acres) in Guinea, and 50 km 2 (12,000 acres) in Côte d'Ivoire.
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 ...
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.
The protected areas of Guinea include national parks, a strict nature reserve, a faunal reserve, and classified forests. [1] National parks ... Mount Nimba; References
The landscape has been badly affected by mining on Mount Nimba and general clearance for farming as well as more recent civil war in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Despite its park status iron ore mining on Mount Nimba was still ongoing up until the Liberian Civil War, while the Loma Mountains are perhaps the best preserved part of the region.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve ... Degradation of property, low mammal population, management problems and impact of a proposed dam on the Gambia River
To quote "Men's Journal," a trek into the rugged nature reserve is a "made-to-order trip for one-percenters." In the local language, the name for the place means "where one cannot walk barefoot."
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.