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The Dzanga-Ndoki National Park is located in the south-west of the Central African Republic. Established in 1990, the national park is .〔(World Database on Protected Areas )〕 The national park is split into two non-continuous sectors, the northern Dzanga sector (or Dzanga Park) and the southern Ndoki sector (or Ndoki Park) . Notable in the Dzanga sector is a gorilla density of 1.6 individuals/km², one of the highest densities ever reported for the western lowland gorilla. Between the two sectors of the national park stretches the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve . The national park and the special reserve, each with its own protective status, are a part of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas (DSPAC).〔 ==Geography== The Dzanga-Sangha National Park is located in the extreme southwest of the Central African Republic in a triangular-shaped part of the country. The main river running through this region is the Sangha River.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sangha River Tri-national Protected Area (STN) )〕 The precise border between the Central African Republic, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo is located at (in the Sangha River), marking the furthest point of the park to the southwest. The park's altitude ranges from to above sea level. The whole park is on alluvial sands. Along streams, forest clearings can be found with marshy depressions referred to as 'bai'.〔 The Dzanga Bai (translation: "the village of elephants") is a sandy salt lick that measures by . It is traversed through the middle by the Dzanga, a stream.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Central African Republic )〕 Since 1997, Bai Hokou has the base site of the Primate Habituation Programme where gorilla habituation for tourism has been ongoing, along with research.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Field research )〕 Logging occurred in the 1980s in the Dzanga sector but not in the Ndoki which is primary forest.〔 Amis Kamiss wrote in 2006 of having visited fifteen diamond mining sites in the Lobé River region, located in the northwestern part of the national park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dzanga-Ndoki National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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