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__NOTOC__ Western Area Forest Reserve, also known as the Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve,〔(United Nations Development Programme )〕〔World Wildlife Fund, ()〕 is a non-hunting forest reserve in Sierra Leone. The area became a forest reserve in 1916 and has an area of .〔〔(''World Database on Protected Areas: Information Sheet'' ), UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, retrieved on 9 November 2007〕 It was demarcated by Charles Lane Poole, Sierra Leone's first ever 'Conservator of Forests,' and founder of the Sierra Leonean Forestry Department.〔Dargavel, John (2008) ''The zealous conservator: a life of Charles Lane Poole'', University of Western Australia Press〕 It is the westernmost semi-deciduous closed canopy forest in Sierra Leone.〔 The forest is home to various endangered species, including a wide variety of endangered birds〔(Bird Life International )〕 and Duiker.〔Rod East, ''Part 3 of Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans'', 1990, page 45. ISBN 2-8317-0016-7〕 Despite its protected status, the reserve has suffered from continuous deforestation, predominantly due to urban encroachment and related activities, a trend only exasperated by the civil war. A detailed deforestation study with a subsequent re-demarcation proposal has been conducted by the WAPFoR project.〔()〕 Results have been presented to the Government of Sierra Leone.〔()〕 There have been proposals to upgrade the reserve's status to a national park,〔〔(United Nations Development Programme, Protected Areas.org )〕 and it is listed on some maps as the "Western Area National Park". Its status appears to remain "proposed".〔(World Database on Protected Areas )〕 The Government of Sierra Leone has published the "Statutory Instrument, Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLIII, No.69 dated 29 November 2012, Proclamation For the Constitution of the Western Area Peninsula National Park" 〔()〕 (available in hardcopy only in the Government Bookshop Freetown) according to the boundaries defined by the WAPFoR Project.〔 Furthermore UNESCO has accepted the Western Area Peninsula National Park’s application as tentative site as UNESCO World Heritage 〔()〕 together with Tiwai Island and Gola Forest National Park. ==Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary== The Reserve is home to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary which was founded in 1995〔(The Sanctuary ''Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary'' ), Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (2007), retrieved on 9 November 2007〕 by Bala Amarasekaran, seven years after he and his wife Sharmila saw a baby chimpanzee for sale by the roadside north of the capital Freetown. The couple bought the chimpanzee for $30 and soon discovered that many other chimpanzees are kept as pets and often mistreated. The sanctuary cares for these abused, orphaned and abandoned animals and offers them a new home, and as capacity becomes stretched, also educates among Sierra Leoneans about protecting chimpanzees in the wild. More than 2,000 local rural school children visit the site every year. 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「Western Area Forest Reserve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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