Tamou Reserve

Infobox_protected_area | name =Réserve totale de faune du Tamou
iucn_category = IV

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caption = Tamou Reserve (8) on a map of W Transborder Park complex
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location = Tillaberi Region, Niger
nearest_city = Say, Niger
lat_degrees = 12
lat_minutes = 35
lat_seconds = 44
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 2
long_minutes = 17
long_seconds = 57
long_direction = E
area = 75,600 hectares
established = 1 January 1962
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governing_body = Parcs Nationaux & Reserves - Niger
world_heritage_site = The Tamou Total Reserve is a nature reserve in the southwest of the African nation of Niger. It is a Total Faunal Reserve IUCN type IV, covering some 75,600 hectares within the Tillaberi Region. The reserve abuts W du Niger, and is primarily dedicated to the protection of African Elephant populations which migrate through the region. [ [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119848932/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 T. O. McSHANE Elephant-fire relationships in Combretum/Terminalia woodland in south-west Niger] . African Journal of EcologyVolume 25 Issue 2, Pages 79 - 94.]

References

* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=3230&level=nat unep-wcmc site record]
* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/ World Database on Protected Areas / UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008.]
* [http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/bio_cou_562.pdf Biodiversity and Protected Areas-- Niger] , Earth Trends country profile (2003)