Ivindo National Park
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How it came to be
Ivindo National Park is about 300,000 ha of rainforest on the equator in Gabon. Its creation was announced in August 2002 by President Omar Bongo at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, together with Gabon's 12 other terrestrial national parks. The Institute for Research in Tropical Ecology (IRET) lies at its northern edge, and a research station stands near the forest clearing of Langoué Baï in the south.
Blackwater rivers run through the park in rapids and waterfalls, above all the Kongou and Mingouli falls of the Ivindo River, known as the 'wonders of Ivindo'. Podostemaceae riverweeds grow on the rocks of the falls, and Kongou alone holds seven species, 44% of Gabon's flora of the family. The rivers are rich in endemic fish: about 15 species of Paramormyrops form a species swarm, the only one of its family known from rivers.
The forest is home to forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and grey parrots, with 126 mammal species and 528 species of day-flying butterflies recorded. Langoué Baï is counted among the most important forest clearings in Central Africa. About 90% of the park is intact, and it was inscribed in 2021.
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