Mount Nimba

This sightseeing attraction is related to the countries:GuineaCôte d’IvoireLiberia

Mount Nimba (Mount Nimba) is located along the border of 3 countries: Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia. They are surrounded by savannahs and the maximum altitude of the mountains above sea level is 1,752 meters. The highest and main peak of the range is called Richard-Molar, and lies right on the border of Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.

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General Information

It is here that the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve) was established in 1944. At that time, iron ore mining was allowed on its territory, but in 1981, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve was placed on UNESCO’s list of endangered sites. The 9.6-hectare area is off-limits to all but scientific work, although ore is still abundant here. Botanists, biologists, ecologists, ethnographers, zoologists, hydrologists and meteorologists are constantly conducting research in the reserve.

The Nimba Mountains are called a “botanical paradise” by biologists. Dense forests, including gallery forests, grow on the mountain slopes, and the uplands are covered with mountain meadows. Of the more than 2,000 species of flora germinating here, 35 species of plants are found nowhere else on the planet.

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The natural environment, undisturbed by human activity, is home to over five hundred species of fauna, 200 of which are found only in the Nimba Mountains. In the park you can meet several varieties of dwarf antelope-duckers, a rare representative of the wyvern family, a relative of the mongoose – spotted genet and an amazing creature that disproves all ideas about amphibians – a viviparous toad. Here you can also observe dwarf monkeys, multicolored colobus, tailless otters, antelope, leopards, viviparous toads and other animals.

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There are no human settlements within the reserve, although there are several villages near its borders, whose inhabitants cultivate the land and raise livestock.

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You can only visit the Nimba Nature Reserve on a guided group tour. It is the guide who will tell an interesting and fascinating story about the merits of the park, its inhabitants and its features.