Zémongo Faunal Reserve (6080)
Central African Republic, Africa

Site overview

KBA status: confirmed

Year of last assessment: 2001

National site name: Zémongo Faunal Reserve

Central coordinates: Latitude: 6.5000, Longitude: 25.5000

System: terrestrial

Elevation (m): 650 to 865

Area of KBA (km²): 13674.50578

Protected area coverage (%): 100.00

KBA classification: Global/Regional TBD

Legacy site: Yes

Site details

Site description: Zémongo, in the east of the country, bordering the Sudan, is essentially Sudan–Guinea savanna with gallery forest lining many of the watercourses that traverse the area, but no vegetation survey appears to have been undertaken.

Rationale for qualifying as KBA: This site qualifies as a Key Biodiversity Area of international significance because it meets one or more previously established criteria and thresholds for identifying sites of biodiversity importance (including Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, Alliance for Zero Extinction sites, and Key Biodiversity Areas)

Additional biodiversity: See Box and Table 3 for key species. No bird observations are available specifically from the National Park itself, but some 95 species have been recorded from an adjacent area of gallery forest to the south, west of Baroua (the result of three weeks’ survey). The avifauna is also likely to include a good proportion of the Sudan–Guinea Savanna biome avifauna (A04: two are known to occur) including, no doubt, a number of species at present unknown from the country. Non-bird biodiversity: The situation within the Faunal Reserve is incompletely known, but the tremendous poaching pressure on large mammals in the safari-operated buffer zones (Haut Chinko: 1,400,000 ha) is all too well-documented. Much of this poaching is from across the Sudan border.

Habitats

Land use: nature conservation and research

IUCN Habitat	Coverage %	Habitat detail
Forest	70
Savanna	29

Threats

Summary of threats to biodiversity at KBA: The Faunal Reserve is currently unadministered, but safari companies maintain some sort of stability (at least during the dry season) in some of the buffer zone.

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