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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park' has mentioned 'Park' in the following places:
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The site was added to the List of World Heritage in Danger after reports of illegal grazing and poaching by heavily armed hunters, who may have harvested as much as 80% of the park's wildlife. | WIKI |
The shooting of four members of the park staff in early 1997 and a general state of deteriorating security brought all development projects and tourism to a halt. | WIKI |
The park occupies most of the eastern end of Bamingui-Bangoran province in the north of the country. | WIKI |
The park's northern boundary is the international border with Chad on the Aouk (Bahr) and Kameur Rivers. | WIKI |
The Ndxc3xa9le-Birao road runs through the park. | WIKI |
With an area of 1,740,000 ha, Manovo-Gounda St Floris is the largest park in the Central African savannas. | UNESCO |
This Park is an interesting example of a xe2x80x9ccrossroadsxe2x80x9d where the species from savanna communities of East and West Africa, as well as those of the forest communities of the South, cross paths. | UNESCO |
The Park is a valuable area for the study of environmental changes occurring throughout the Sahel and Sudan under pressure from drought and overgrazing. | UNESCO |
The Park straddles the Sudano-Sahelian and Sudano-Guinean biogeographical zones. | UNESCO |
This vast Park, surrounded by hunting areas and with a functional corridor to the National Park of Bamingui-Bangoran, protects the largest savanna of Central Africa. | UNESCO |
Criterion (x): The Parkxe2x80x99s wildlife reflects its transitional position between East and West Africa, the Sahel and the rainforests. | UNESCO |
Several important large mammal species in terms of conservation live in the Park, such as black rhino, elephant, hippopotamus, red-fronted gazelle (here at the southern limit of its range), lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog. | UNESCO |
Some 320 species of birds have been recorded in the Park, of which at least 25 species of raptors. | UNESCO |
Flood plains to the north of the Park are largely adequate for water birds, and the shoebill has been observed in the Park. | UNESCO |
With a total area of 1,740,000 ha, the Park is almost completely surrounded by the game reserves of Ouandija-Vakaga and Aouk-Aoukalxc3xa9 (480,000 ha and 330,000 ha respectively), which provide effective protection against threats to the property from surrounding areas. | UNESCO |
Nevertheless, the integrity of the Park is a cause for concern because of the numerous threats, poaching in particular (notably of rhinoceros, elephant and giraffe) and grazing. | UNESCO |
At the time of inscription, the Park was managed by a private company (Manova SA) which benefited from a governmental contract to manage the site. | UNESCO |
The Park was then regarded as the best-managed protected area of the country. | UNESCO |
Two bases (Manova and Gordil) are situated alongside the Park, to the east and west, but only the former is truly functional. | UNESCO |
Anti-poaching actions are primarily organised from these bases, limited by the lack of personnel, means of transport and the prevailing insecurity in the Park. | UNESCO |
However, nomad pastoralists from the Sudanese region of Nyala and from Chad, with 30 xe2x80x93 40,000 head of cattle, enter the Park every winter xe2x80x93 the dry season grazing halt on their traditional seasonal migration routes. | UNESCO |
There is also dispersed and limited agricultural activity in the environs of the Park. | UNESCO |
The pressures of poaching and grazing highlight the need for a functional management or development plan for the Park. | UNESCO |
This plan should take into account the zoning of the Park and its relationship with the Village Hunting Zones in the periphery, with participative management and a Development Plan for the entire north-east territory (grazing areas and redefinition of the seasonal migration corridors). | UNESCO |
The creation of a transborder xe2x80x9cZakouma National Park (Chad) xe2x80x93Manovo Gounda St Floris National Parkxe2x80x9d protected area is also desirable. | UNESCO |