Batéké Plateau National Park

Batéké Plateau National Park is a national park in the Bateke Plateau,[1] southeastern Gabon covering 2,034 km2 (785 sq mi). Due to its purported universal cultural and natural significance, it was added onto the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on October 20, 2005.

Batéké Plateau National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Location within Gabon
LocationHaut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
Coordinates2.188°S 14.02°E / -2.188; 14.02[1]
Area2,034 km2 (785 sq mi)
Established2002
Governing bodyNational Agency for National Parks

Fauna

In 2016, a single male lion was recorded in the National Park. Genetic analysis of his hair samples revealed that is closely related to historical lion specimens from this area and the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, which grouped with lion samples from Namibia and Botswana.[2]

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gollark: Initial CUDA support (it is apparently maybe 10% faster on nvidia stuff, but generally the same) and nobody ever bothered to change it because all the researchers just bought from nvidia? That seems kind of implausible.
gollark: Which does make me wonder why machine learning tools aren't written against it.
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See also

References
  1. "Plateaux Batéké in Gabon". protectedplanet.net. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  2. Barnett, R., Sinding, M.H., Vieira, F.G., Mendoza, M.L., Bonnet, M., Araldi, A., Kienast, I., Zambarda, A., Yamaguchi, N., Henschel, P., Gilbert, M.T. (2018). "No longer locally extinct? Tracing the origins of a lion (Panthera leo) living in Gabon". Conservation Genetics. 19 (3): 611–618. doi:10.1007/s10592-017-1039-2. PMC 6448349. PMID 31007636.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)



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