Badiar National Park

The Badiar National Park (French: Parc National du Badiar) is a national park in Guinea, on the border with Senegal, and contiguous with Senegal's (much larger) Niokolo-Koba National Park. It was established on 30 May 1985 (by ordonnance N°124/PRG/85). It is approximately 38,200 hectares (94,000 acres) in size.

The national park is one part of the Badiar Biosphere Reserve (established in 2002), a larger area - 284,300 hectares (703,000 acres) - that also includes the neighbouring forest of Southern Badiar and the Forest of Ndama.[1]

Badiar is an IUCN Category II park.[2]

References

  1. ↑ An Inventory of Biodiversity in the Badiar National Park, Guinea Conakry: Implication for Conservation, in Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 4:8 (2009), 948-951, by Doumbouya Sory Bailo, Nahayo Alphonse and Yansheng Gu
  2. ↑ Badiar National Park, Protected Planet

Coordinates: 12°35′49″N 13°20′48″W / 12.5969944°N 13.346622°W / 12.5969944; -13.346622


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