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Wildlife Reserves of Cameroon, Central Africa The final leg of our journey to the top of Cameroon, it's Northern reaches where Savannah meets desert near Lake Thad, brought us to Waza National Park. We stayed at an unforgettable site which resembled a native village in that the individual units were round with conical roofs. They were connected to the main dining room by a network of stone steps. All in all it would make a great place for a medium sized seminar or group event. We received an attractive area map which contained the following comments: The park was established by the Cameroonian government in 1968 to protect the available natural resources, to encourage tourism and to develop educational and research activities. Thanks to the worldwide reputation of the Park UNESCO decided in cooperation with the government to grant it biosphere reserve status in 1982. Three main vegetation
types can be recognized in Waza National Park: a wooded
Savannah, an Acacia seyal forest and the flood plains of the
Logone. These plains are flooded each year from mid-August
until mid-November, which leaves until mid-November, which
leaves them inaccessible. Hardly any height differences can
be found in the Park, which is situated in the bed of the
former Lake Thad. The characteristic rocky outcrops at Waza
village form the only exception. However, the small
gradients that do exist are responsible for the annual
retreat of the inundation waters towards Lake Thad. .... |
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