Biodiversity
Between 2000 and 2005 a series of large mammal surveys, bushmeat and similar studies established baseline information on large mammal abundance, human population trends, and levels of bushmeat offtake for the Kabo, Pokola, Loundoungou, and Toukoulaka concessions.
This information contributed to the development of logging company and community management policies to protect large mammal populations and that habitat on which they depend. These data will also be critical to the writing of management plans for each of the concessions.
Studies on the impact of logging activities on large mammal abundance and distribution are underway in the buffer zones, and specific ecological studies of bongo, elephant, gorilla and chimpanzee were conducted across the entire Ndoki-Likouala landscape. Resultant information has shown that there a significant populations of large mammals using the forestry concessions, particularly forest elephants, bongo and western gorillas.