Dja-Minkebe-Odzala Trinational Landscape
The Dja-Minkebe-Odzala Trinational landscape (TRIDOM) comprises four national parks, one faunal reserve and one proposed national park.
The four national parks are the Minkebe National Park, Ivindo National Park and Mwagne National Park in Gabon, and the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in Congo, while in Cameroon there is the Dja Faunal Reserve and the proposed Boumba Bek-Nki National Park. The TRIDOM landscape covers a vast area of over 140,000 km2, of which 18% lies within protected areas, and the region is home to many species of large mammals, including forest elephants, western gorillas and chimpanzees. TRIDOM has low human population density, and large tracts of wilderness remain.
At the most recent COMIFAC meeting, a TRIDOM agreement for transboundary cooperation was finalized between ROC, Gabon, and Cameroon. TRIDOM natural resource governance is emerging based on innovative examples that are being replicated from other landscapes: WCS' work with the CIB concession is being replicated in the Ngombe concession with IFO-Danzer forming the eastern buffer zone for Odzala Park ; WCS and the Government of Congo are surveying the Ntokou-Pikounda area as a first step in the process of creating a new protected area to conserve some of the highest densities of lowland gorilla remaining in Central Africa. WWF is working on wildlife management in the medium-sized concessions in northeastern Gabon; and the Minkébé gold-panning agreement can inspire similar contractual arrangements in ROC or elsewhere in Gabon.
Governments, WWF, WCS, and ECOFAC actively participated in and contributed to the development of the TRIDOM UNDP/GEF proposal that will focus resources on sustainable management and conservation of the "inter-zone" of the TRIDOM area.