Loango National Park

Loango National Park is in western Gabon occupying more than 1550 sq kilometers. This diverse coastal habitat includes Iguéla Lagoon which covers 216sq km and lies between Nkomi and Ndogo Lagoon.  The park is one of the famed protected areas where Mike Fay and Nick Nicols from the National Geographic who named the park-the land of surfing hippos.

The vegetation is mainly savannah, pristine beach, forest and mangroves, with a high percentage of water across the whole area. The park was formerly a faunal reserve in 1956 and later in 2002, it was named a national park by President Omar Bongo Ondimba.

Wildlife

Some of the animals in Loango National park include forest buffalo, elephants, hippo, gorillas and leopards. The coastline is a habitat for killer humpback whales. After South Africa, the world’s largest concentration and variety of whales and dolphins can be found right off the Loango coast.

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