Bengangai (6817)
South Sudan, Africa

Site overview

KBA status: confirmed

Year of last assessment: 2001

National site name: Bengangai

Central coordinates: Latitude: 5.0000, Longitude: 27.5000

System: terrestrial

Elevation (m): 500 to 1000

Area of KBA (km²): 1047.2471

Protected area coverage (%): 17.20

KBA classification: Global/Regional TBD

Legacy site: Yes

Site details

Site description: Bengangai is a small forested Game Reserve on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, west of the town of Yambio. The site is bounded to the west by the Biki river and to the east by the Ogo river, to the south by the border with DR Congo and to the north by the road linking Yambio with the international frontier of the Central African Republic, immediately to the north-west. The vegetation of the site is principally Guinea–Congolian forest.

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 2 for key species. This is the only site in Sudan from which Columba albinucha is known. Non-bird biodiversity: The following mammals of global conservation concern occur, or used to do so: Pan troglodytes (EN), Loxodonta africana (EN), Cephalophus sylvicultor (LR/nt), C. rufilatus (LR/cd), Tragelaphus euryceros (LR/nt), Syncerus caffer (LR/cd) and Kobus ellipsiprymnus (LR/cd).

Habitats

Land use: nature conservation and research

IUCN Habitat	Coverage %	Habitat detail
Forest	62
Savanna	37

Threats

Summary of threats to biodiversity at KBA: The reserve was set up in 1939 principally to protect its population of Tragelaphus euryceros.

Additional information