Key Biodiversity Areas

3D Model

Some 310 bird species have been identified in a first survey; a few montane species inhabit the highest hills, i.e. two species of the Cameroon mountains EBA and Afrotropical Highlands biome, including Nectarinia oritis. Ceratogymna elata is common in the Makombé Forest; Hirundo fuliginosa is found commonly throughout and there are several breeding colonies of Picathartes oreas, especially in the north of Ebo. One Sudan–Guinea Savanna biome species has also been recorded.

Barombi Mbo Crater Lake. A deep volcanic crater lake, the site forms with three other crater lakes in the Southwest Province of Cameroon the so-called “Afrotropical Cameroon Crater Lakes Ecoregion”. It is famous among biologists for the occurrence of 12 endemic fish-species, rendering it one of the places with the highest densities of endemic species per area in the world. Lake Barombi Mbo is also important due to the presence of freshwater sponges, one of which (Corvospongilla thysi) is also endemic.

The Nguti Council Forest and Nkwende