Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
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How it came to be
Where Guinea, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire meet, the Nimba range rises above the savanna. Its highest point is 1,752 metres, and some fifty springs make it a water tower. Dense forest covers the lower slopes up to 1,000 metres, montane forest rich in epiphytes lies above, and montane savanna covers summits stretching for 15 kilometres.
Many of its creatures live nowhere else, among them a viviparous toad, the Nimba otter shrew and chimpanzees that use stones as tools. More than 317 vertebrate species have been recorded, 107 of them mammals.
The reserve was established in 1943 in Côte d'Ivoire and in 1944 in Guinea, and inscribed in 1981. Exploration for iron ore in the most vulnerable mountain zone began in 1992, and it has been on the danger list since then. The Liberian part was badly degraded by earlier mining.
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