Mount Cameroon National Park

Mount Cameroon National Park

The Mount Cameroon National Park was established in 2009. It covers 581.23 km². The park contains the area of the former Etinde Forest Reserve and a large part of the Bomboko Forest Reserve. The park is one of the eight hotspots of biodiversity in the “Gulf of Guinea Forests”, with abundant, diverse and partly endemic flora and fauna. The park and its surroundings are home to numerous ecotourism opportunities. The highest mountain in West and Central Africa, Mount Cameroon is the fourth highest mountain in Africa, just a few kilometers off the Atlantic coast of the Gulf of Guinea. The Park extends from the evergreen lowland rainforest close to sea level, through submontane and montane forests, to montane and subalpine grasslands, up to an altitude of 4070 meters. The Mount Cameroon is an active volcano with a number of craters, crater lakes, caves, lava flows and ash fields. It offers a varied and stunning landscape, ideal for hiking. The western slope of Mount Cameroon National Park is one of the wettest places in the world, with 10 000 mm of rainfall. The park is home to African Forest Elephants - with a population of more than 100 individuals-, Chimpanzees, Drills, over 330 bird species, among other endangered and sometimes endemic species. There are two species of bird endemic to the Cameroon Mountains, the Mount Cameroon Spurfowl and the Mount Cameroon Speirops.