Gabon Articles
Ivindo National Park
Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve & Pongara National Park
The Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve supports a diversity of wildlife including elephants, chimpanzees, buffalos, lowland gorillas and antelopes. Along the Pongara National Park's 35-kilometer Atlantic shoreline, 3,500 leatherback turtle nests are laid every year during the October to March breeding season.
Akanda National Park
Akanda National Park
This park is a Ramsar site of international importance for migratory birds. Located to the north of Libreville it is only accessible by boat, either by sea or by way of the rivers and creeks of the Mondah bay complex.One needs to fortify oneself with a picnic lunch and take a boat from Libreville through the mangroves to the mouth of the Moka River on the edge of the Akanda National Park. This is one of the finest places in Gabon for estuarine migrants and the mangrove and...
Lope National Park
Lope National Park was the first protected area in Gabon when the Lope-Okanda Wildlife Reserve was created in 1946. Its legal and management statutes have changed several times over the years. recentlythe Lope National Park became part of the network of 13 Parks created in August 2002 by Presidential decree. Although comprising mostly of rainforestto the north the Park contains the last remnants of grass savannas created in Central Africa during the last Ice Age, some15000 years ago. These...
Loango National Park
Loangois the jewel of Gabon's west coast. Highlights for the visitor include breathtaking panoramas with elephant, buffalo, hippo, gorilla and leopard venturing on the white beachfront, a unique sight in the world. Loango is internationally renowned as a site for tarpon of record size, as well as many other large sport ocean fish. The Loango is an exceptional coastal park because of the diversity of its ecosystems. Located on the coast some 250 km to the south of Libreville, the Loango...




