Ankansa / Ankasa Conservation Area / Nini Suhien National Park (Western Region, Ghana)
Ankansa / Ankasa Conservation Area
The Ankasa Conversation Area is an area in southwestern Ghana, in Ghana's Western Region, about 365 kilometers west of Accra near the border with Côte d'Ivoire. It incorporates the Nini Suhien National Park and the Ankasa Resource Reserve.
The park is approximately 500 square kilometers, and consists largely of tropical evergreen rain-forest. The Ankasa, Nini, and Suhien Rivers all pass through the park, |
and are known for their rapids and waterfalls. The forest has the most biological diversity of any in Ghana, with over 300 different plant species having been recorded in a single hectare of forest.
The park was established in 1976, within the 490 sq. km Park incorporates the former Nini-Suhien National Park and was opened to the public in March 2000.
Mammals include forest elephant, bongo antelope, duiker, leopard, civet cat, chimpanzee and several monkeys. The bird life abounds. The parrot, eagle and the white-breasted guinea fowl rediscovered since 1963, the olive green bill and glossy starling are some of the birds found here. The Bongo is proposed as the Park’s symbol. There are 263 counted species of birds.
The park includes basic camping facilities with shelters, toilets, and running water along with some other facilities. |
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The vegetation is virgin evergreen rain forest having exceptional botanical species, which include the newly discovered “psychosis ankasensis”..
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