Mayumba National Park

Mayumba National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Location	Gabon
Nearest city	Mayumba
Coordinates	03°48′00″S 11°00′45″E
Area	870 km²
Established	2002
Governing body	National Agency for National Parks

Mayumba National Park (French: Parc national de Mayumba) is a national park in southwestern Gabon. It is a thin tongue of beach, dunes, savanna, and rain-forest in the extreme south of the country, between Mayumba and the Congo border. Mayumba National Park shelters 60 km of the most important leatherback turtle nesting beaches on Earth and is home to unique coastal vegetation and a variety of terrestrial animals, including forest elephants, buffaloes, leopards, gorillas, chimpanzees, antelopes, crocodiles, hippos, and several species of monkeys. It also stretches for 15 km out to sea, protecting important marine habitats for dolphins, sharks, and migrating humpback whales. It is Gabon's only primarily marine park.

External links

• Virtual Tour of the National Parks
• Official Mayumba National Park Website- English and French
• Wildlife Conservation Society