Sapo National Park is a national park in Sinoe County, Liberia. It is the country's largest protected area of rainforest,[1]
was the first national park established in the country,[2][3]
and contains the second-largest area of primary tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire.[4]
Agriculture, construction, fishing, hunting, human settlement, and logging are prohibited in the park.[5][6]
Sapo National Park is located in the Upper Guinean forest ecosystem,[7]
a biodiversity hotspot that has "the highest mammal species diversity of any region in the world", according to Conservation International,[8][9]
and in the Western Guinean lowland forests ecoregion, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature's ecoregions classification scheme.[10]
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03667°W / 4.99361; -9.03667. The river forms the western boundary of SapoNationalPark. "Sinoe River". MapPlanet. Retrieved 2008-08-02. Riley, Laura & William...
bird (Pycnonotus barbatus) is the national bird. Around 590 species of bird have been recorded in SapoNationalPark. These include the white-breasted...
composed of various valleys and water courses. SapoNationalPark (180,436 ha (445,870 acres), a National protected area, Sankwehn Proposed Reserve, occupying...
pygmy hippos caught on film, BBC News 2008-03-10 Camera trap results, SapoNationalPark, Liberia, Zoological Society of London (EDGE of Existence Programme)...
is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, southern Ghana and Liberia (SapoNationalPark). Their habitat consists of primary forests. Wikimedia Commons has...
in the Taï NationalPark (Côte d'Ivoire). Protected areas where bay duikers occur include: SapoNationalPark (Liberia); Kakum NationalPark (Ghana); Campo...
forest. Protected areas include: Taï NationalPark in Ivory Coast, Lofa-Mano NationalPark, in Liberia, SapoNationalPark in Liberia, Diecké Forest Reserve...
Canaima NationalPark (Spanish: Parque Nacional Canaima) is a 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) park in south-eastern Venezuela that roughly occupies the same...
Retrieved 13 April 2006. "Inglaterra impôs maior derrota de sempre a Portugal". SAPO Desporto. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September...
protected areas, in particular the Gola NationalPark in Sierra Leone, SapoNationalPark in Liberia, and Taï NationalPark in Ivory Coast. In a study conducted...
the family Maizaniidae. The specific name sapoensis is named after SapoNationalPark, Liberia, where it lives. The species is provisionally attributed...
surveyed the area that was established as SapoNationalPark in 1983, creating Liberia's first official nationalpark. Peal is the president and CEO of the...
Service issued a decree stating that the Sapo Padang enclave was no longer legally a part of the nationalpark, a controversial decision, which consequently...
National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence...
hilly areas, cultivated land, quarries, rocky slopes, gravel pits, woods, parks and gardens. It is active at dusk and through the night, spending the day...
Embraer E190 twinjet operating the service crashed into the Bwabwata NationalPark in Namibia, halfway through its flight, killing all 27 passengers and...
Portugal. "Português vai ser introduzido no ensino secundário no Zimbabué". SAPO 24 (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 July 2020. "Zimbabwe: Português vai ser...
Pinto da Costa suspended for two years, Boavista relegated]. SAPO Notícias (in Portuguese). SAPO. 9 May 2008. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017...
barrigas de aluguer e Procriação Medicamente Assistida – Renascença". rr.sapo.pt. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2017....
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