Comoé National Park
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How it came to be
Comoé National Park in north-eastern Côte d'Ivoire is one of the largest protected areas in West Africa. It holds about 620 plant species, 500 bird species and 135 mammal species, and it was inscribed in 1983.
During the country's political and military crisis of 2002-2010, poaching, fires set by poachers and overgrazing by large herds of cattle spread, and management broke down. The park was put on the danger list in 2003. Côte d'Ivoire's chimpanzees declined by about 90% from the early 1990s.
Protection was later rebuilt, and the park is believed to hold about 300 chimpanzees and 120 elephants. On 4 July 2017, on IUCN's advice, it was taken off the danger list. A decree of 2018 set its area at 1,148,756 hectares.
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