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A volcanic plug in Man. The environment of Côte d'Ivoire has more than 1,200 animal species—223 mammal, 702 bird, 125 reptile, 38 amphibian, and 111 fish species—and 4,700 plant species.
The forest-savanna mosaic interlaces forest, savanna and grassland habitats. Northern Ivory Coast is part of the Sudanian Savanna ecoregion of the Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome. It is a zone of lateritic or sandy soils, with vegetation decreasing from south to north. [2]
Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cocoa, a major national cash crop. Other chief crops include coffee , bananas , and oil palms , which produce palm oil and kernels. Mineral resources include petroleum , natural gas , diamonds , manganese , iron , cobalt , bauxite , copper , gold , nickel , tantalum , silica sand, clay , palm oil .
This category contains the native flora of Ivory Coast as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
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.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Ivory Coast, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. By major habitat type:
The Guinean forest-savanna, also known as the Guinean forest-savanna transition, is a distinctive ecological region located in West Africa. [2] [3] It stretches across several countries including Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon.
Taï National Park (Parc National de Taï) is a national park in Ivory Coast that contains one of the last areas of primary rainforest in West Africa.It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1982 due to the diversity of its flora and fauna.