Manovo Complex

Largest wilderness protection area in Central African Republic, covering 115,700 km2. The CAR Northern Protected Area Complex encompasses 2 National Parks: Bamingui-Bangoran, Manovo-Gounda Saint Floris, 4 faunal reserves, 9 community hunting zones and 20 hunting zones. Together, those areas host the most intact ecosystem and important wildlife assemblages in central Africa, including species of global importance such as giraffe, lion, African wild dog, hippopotamus, giant eland, elephant, bongo, buffalo, roan, and more. The complex’s landscape features a transition zone between two ecoregions, the East Sudanian Savanna and the vast Northern Congolian Forest-Savanna Mosaic. This area is of paramount importance to conservation and community development. Several million livelihoods rely on the rivers in the complex, which also feed the Lake Chad Basin.