🌲 Akanda National Park

Gabon · Africa · National Park · 0.62°N, 9.55°E

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Akanda National Park is located just north of Libreville, Gabon's capital city. It is also one of 13 National Parks in Gabon set up in 2002 by President Omar Bongo after a two-year study by the Directorate of Widlife and Hunting, WCS and WWF. The 13 national parks are designed to represent the biodiversity of the country and encourage tourism. Akanda National Park is located in the north-west of the country, near Libreville, with coastline along the Mondah and Corisco bays.

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Quick facts

CountryGabon
Continent / regionAfrica
Protection type🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)0.62°N, 9.55°E · view on map

Akanda National Park is a national park in Gabon, in Africa. The details of why Akanda National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Coordinates are an approximate area centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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