The national park of Mwagna

The world’s second biggest rainforest

Date of creation : 2002

Surface : 1165 km2

Highest height : 650 m

Natural Habitats : The biggest rainforest in the world

Province : Ogooué-Ivindo

Neighboring towns: Mbey

Nearby airport: Makokou

STATUS :
– Registered in the UNESCO World Heritage.
–Registered in the World Biosphere Reserve Network since 1983.

FAVORITE PERIOD :
From Novembre to April :
– Riding with a canoe, discovery of the waterfalls
All over the year :
– extra activities : wild animal discovery; meeting people

With nearly 1200km2, the national park of Mwangna is the second most important and large rainforest in the world that remains unoccupied, only a few savage men and hunters are go there. Brazil is the only country in the world with a wider bloc of forest.

The largest forestry block in Africa

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Deeply met in the great virgin forest of Africa, the National park of Mwagna is an important large forestry block in the East of Gabon that is part of the Congo Bassin, as the second largest raining forest almost unoccupied in the world. Brazil is the only country in the world with a wide bloc of forest.

The great tropical and wet forest of Mwagna is a worthy worldwide resource in terms of biodiversity and it remains the pride of Gabonese. The park and its surrounding environment are also important for preserving the planet from global warming. Millions of ancient trees intertwined with climbing creepers and epiphytes trap tons of carbon (10000-25.000 tons/km2), impeaching its introduction in the atmosphere as a Carbonate dioxide, and accelerating the global warming. Therefore, the interior big forest of Gabon related to Mwagna consitutes not only a pride for Gabon, but also, it is profitable to the whole planet.

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Adventure Tourism based activities

With its numerous and mythic rivers and its forest lightly explored, this park is a reliable place for “ the tourism of adventure”. The project of the development of Mwagna is based on savage adventure and the nature exploration. The setting of a minimum of infrastructures will make it an attractive park for an ultra-savage adventure by preserving the nature meanwhile .Those unexplored soils are a particular attraction for tourists willing to experience the adventure and willing to get out from their housing comfort .

Good to know

The park of Mwagna is an open land. We can find the viper from Gabon, strange spiders, urticant caterpillars and numerous unique species: Hartlaub duck, dwarf hornbill and the so-called Cercopithecus from Brazza which is only known in the West of the Country.

Jaco Parrots use to gather in the raffia alongside the lost rivers. Others discoveries on along the rivers are still possible on those savage lands. According to the local tribe a giant creature exists there looking like a dinosaur: the Mokélé- Mbembé!

The wildlife of the park

That great forest and untouched is a refuge for many animals attracted by the rich soil in minerals of the biggest bay of Gabon, the Mythic bay Mwagna, considered as sacred by the pygmy. Elephants, monkeys, heliosphere, antelope bongo, sitatunga and other cephalothins maintain that clearing space full of minerals.

Dealing with big mammals, thirty ones are already recorded, among which we have some emblematic species threaten such as the forest elephants, west gorilla, and chimpanzees. Apart from the seven species of little monkeys, we also have marine chevrotain, buffaloes, bongo, the sitatungas, the hylochoerus and the panther.