Badiar National Park
Badiar National Park is a national park in Guinea, on the border with Senegal and contiguous with Senegal's much larger Niokolo-Koba National Park. It was established on 30 May 1985, partly in response to Senegal's concern about poaching in Niokolo-Koba National Park. Badiar is an International Union for Conservation of Nature .
Geography
The park consists of two separate areas: the Mafou sector of and the Kouya sector of. There is also a buffer sector of around the Mafou sector. The principal rivers are the Koulountou and the Mitji. The annual rainfall averages, mostly during the rainy season of June–October.Environment
The park is an important ecosystem, with a large variety of vertebrate species and vascular plants. It is one of the three core areas of the Badiar Biosphere Reserve, established in 2002 and covering, that also includes the neighbouring forest of Southern Badiar and the Forest of Ndama. The terrain includes savanna, open woodlands and gallery forest. The eastern part of the park contains scrub woodland, while the western part is characterised by wooded savanna and open forest. Endangered plant species include Ceiba pentandra, Cassia sieberiana and Combretum micranthum.Endangered animal species found within the park include the Western red colobus, western chimpanzee, white stork, African rock python and ball python. Other resident species include the African elephant, roan antelope, kob, giant eland, leopard, spotted hyena and Guinea baboon. The park has been designated an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of violet turacos, red-throated bee-eaters, blue-bellied rollers, Senegal parrots, piapiacs, black-capped babblers, purple starlings, white-crowned robin-chats, bar-breasted firefinches and Sahel bush sparrows.