Mwagne National park

Mwagna National Park (also Mwangné National Park, French: Parc national de Mwagna) is a national park in Gabon. It covers an area of 1,160 km². 

The rich mineral soil of the baï attracts elephants, apes, giant forest hogs and various antelopes. You’ll also find the Gabon viper, fascinating spiders, stinging ferns and rare birds. Bordering the Republic of Congo, Mwagna is in northeastern Gabon. It’s pretty inaccessible and has very few human inhabitants, but there’s a road from Makokou to Mékambo and on to Malouma, from where you have to walk 14km.

Also known as Mwangné to some local communities, its inaccessibility is its blessing: an undisturbed haven for forest elephants, hogs, western lowland gorillas, bongo antelope, reptiles, and rare endemic bird and plant species. Declared a World Heritage-listed site, Mwagna’s rich mineral soils attract collaborative communities of multiple species to centuries-old forest openings known as baïs, where swampy ground is churned up by elephants, picked over by primates and grazed by antelope, a true Eden sacred to the forest pygmies.

In recent times, a hyena was spotted in this reserve for the first time in Gabon in 20 years.

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