Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda

World Heritage
Gabon
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The Lope-Okanda Ecosystem and Cultural Site demonstrates an unusual interface between dense and well-preserved tropical rainforest and remnant savannah environments, rich in species, including endangered large mammals and habitats. The site demonstrates ecological and biological processes by which species and habitats adapted to post-glacial climate change. It contains evidence of successive migrations of different peoples who left behind a wealth of well-preserved remains of habitation on mountaintops, in caves and around shelters, evidence of iron working, and some 1,800 remarkable petroglyphs (rock engravings). The property's Neolithic and Iron Age sites and the rock art found there reflect a major migration route of Bantu and other peoples from West Africa along the Ogowe River Valley to the north in the dense evergreen Congo forests and east-central and southern Africa, a route that shaped the development of all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Forest elephants in park savannah

Lopé and the Ogooué River

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Wasmannia auropunctata (fire ant) is an invasive alien species blamed for reducing species diversity...

Panorama of the northern savanna-dominated part Lopé National Park, shortly after the annual burning...

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Information extracted from Wikidata

uses 4613178-4
country Gabon
image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lop%C3%A9%20National%20Park%20river%20crop.jpg
executive body Lopé National Park
Wolfram Language entity code Entity["Park", "LopeNationalPark::8ygm6"]
office held by head of the organization http://g.co/kg/m/09hdjj
Commons category Lopé National Park
inception 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
coordinate location Point(11.5428 -0.525334)
official website http://www.parcsgabon.org/decouvrez-les-parcs/les-13-parcs-nationaux/parc-national-de-la-lope
page banner http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gabon%20banner%20Lop%C3%A9%20National%20Park.jpg
Wolfram Language entity code Entity["Park", "LopeNationalPark::8ygm6"]