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Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve : ウィキペディア英語版 | Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve
The Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve is situated on the Mambilla Plateau in SE Nigeria, covering 46k m2. It can be reached on foot from Yelwa village past the Mayo Jigawal, from where it is less than half an hour’s walk to the upper edge of the forest. The altitude ranges from up to .〔 (Birdlife International fact sheet ) 〕 Ngel Nyaki was formally gazetted a local authority Forest Reserve under Gashaka - Mambilla Native Authority Forest order of April 1969, but at present it is under the management of the Taraba State Government and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), with the Nigerian Montane Forest Project (NMFP) as a project partner.〔 In November 2014 a long term monitoring vegetation plot was established in the reserve, funded by Nigerian philanthropist Theophilus Danjuma and administered by the Nigerian Montane Forest Project. The research plot is part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) global network operated through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.〔http://www.afromontane.canterbury.ac.nz/plot/〕 ==Vegetation== The reserve contains a stand of rare dry type montane to sub-montane forest and is the only forest of its type left on the heavily populated Mambilla plateau.〔 (Nigerian Montane Forest Project website ) 〕 The forest is an isolated fragment of approximately 7.5 km2. The forest is diverse in species composition and has many tall emergents (e.g. Pouteria altissima, locally exclusive to this forest). Four tree species are Red Data listed (''Entandrophragma angolense, Lovoa trichilioides, Millettia conraui, Pouteria altissima''), and several, such as ''Anthonotha noldeae'' are new to West Africa and others new to Nigeria. An illustrated checklist of the flora of Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve has been created.〔 (An illustrated checklist of the flora of Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve ) 〕
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