Sangha Trinational Landscape
The Sangha Trinational Landscape is one of the most important conservation areas in Central Africa, including the core Trinational protected zone of Lobeke National Park in Cameroon , Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in Congo.
These National Parks also have significant buffer zones which benefit from conservation protection. These buffer zones include the Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Special Reserve in CAR, a multiple use area where agriculture, hunting, logging and safari hunting are permitted, five logging concessions bordering the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and a series of logging and community-use zones in Cameroon.
The Sangha Trinational Protected Area is one of the largest and pristine existing complexes of protected areas and buffer zones and it forms a contiguous block across the boundaries of three countries. It contains a wide variety of habitats including a large river system, seasonally flooded and other lowland forests, and a large number of forest clearings. In addition to a diversity of habitats, the area contains large populations of Central African megafauna including forest elephants, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and bongo. The area forms a single ecological bloc, and many of the animals have large home ranges which often cross international boundaries, particularly forest elephants. Transboundary collaboration is therefore essential for the conservation of the region's biodiversity.