Ivindo

Between the Ogooué and Ivindo rivers,  downstream from Makokou.

Park Highlights

• The most impressive waterfalls of Central Africa
  The Kongou and Mingouli falls are the biggest and most spectacular waterfalls of forested Africa
• Bais (waterhole clearings)
  Discovered recently in 2000, the Langoue Bai has the largest concentrations of easily observable elephants and gorillas in Gabon
• Naive apes
  Gorillas and chimpanzees do not flee human presence. So they are relatively easy to approach
• Wilderness rivers
  The Ivindo and Djidji rivers with their majestic falls are ideal for canoe expeditions
•  Ipassa research station
  A network of paths where, for 20 years, much of the early research on the ecology of the Central African rainforest took place.

International status

• The park, which is an IUCN critical site for conservation, includes the Ipassa Nature Reserve, managed by the ministry responsible for scientific research and is currently the only MAB (UNESCO) site in Gabon.

Tourist facilities

• The Ipassa research station, created in 1972, is now being renovated with European Union funding. The remarkable network of paths, set up for the purposes of scientific research, can still be used and this offers possibilities for tourism.
• An important WCS project is currently preparing facilities and training staff at the Langoué Bai site, to ready for National Park creation and to receive tourists.
• WCS has set up a trust fund for the management of the zone.