Batéké Plateaux Project
The Bateke Plateaux spans three countries: Gabon, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo and covers some 6 million hectares.
The project focuses on the CBFP-defined priority landscape covering 35,350 km2 in the Republic of Congo and Gabon. The primary geographic focus within Congo is the Lefini Reserve west to the Bambama-Lekana region, and the area that borders the Bateke Plateau National Park (BPNP) in Gabon.
WCS-Congo researchers are currently helping the Government of Congo to map the area's biodiversity, with the eventual goal of creating a national park in the part of the Bateke plateau landscape which lies in Congo; survey teams have traversed the proposed national park, collecting data on the presence of all large mammals, as well as indicators of human activities, and this information will be used to advise the government on the feasibility of gazetting the area as a national park.