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Arli National Park
National park in Burkina Faso From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arli National Park, often called Arly,[2] is a national park located in Tapoa Province, southeastern Burkina Faso.[3] It adjoins Benin's Pendjari National Park in the south and the Singou Reserve in the west.
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The park covers 760 km2 (290 sq mi) with a wide variety of habitats, ranging from the gallery forests of the Arli and Pendjari rivers to savanna woodland and sandstone hills of the Gobnangou chain. It is home to around 200 African elephants, 200 hippos and 100 lions. There are also buffaloes, baboons, red and green monkeys, warthogs, and various antelopes, such as the western hartebeest and roan antelope. There are also bushbucks, duikers and waterbuck.[2][4]
The park can be accessed via the N19 highway via Diapaga (in the dry season also via Pama). Arli National Park has several pools, such as Tounga where there is a waterhole and two pools which are often visited by up to twenty hippos.
The park was earlier a habitat for the West African wild dog (Lycaon pictus manguensis),[5] although this canid is likely extirpated from the local area due to an expanding human population, and lack of national protection.
The Arly reserve is part of a complex of protected areas with the Singou reserve, forming an important bird area.
Management of the park has been delegated to the Burkinabe NGO NATURAMA since 1993.
The reserve has been designated a Ramsar site since 2009 for the international importance of its wetlands. [6]
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