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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Taï National Park' has mentioned 'Forest' in the following places:
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The Tai Forest reserve was created in 1926, and promoted to national park status in 1972.
The Tai Forest is a natural reservoir of the Ebola virus.
The park consists of 4,540xc2xa0km2 of tropical evergreen forest located at the south western corner of Cxc3xb4te d'Ivoire, bordering Liberia.
There is some swamp forest in the northwest of the park and in N'zo.
In 1986, Cxc3xb4te d'Ivoire suffered a 30% rainfall deficit, possibly due to loss of forest cover: 90% of the country has been deforested in the past fifty years resulting in greatly diminished evapotranspiration.
The park is one of the last remaining portions of the vast primary Upper Guinean rain forest that once stretched across present-day Togo, Ghana, Cxc3xb4te d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone to Guinea-Bissau.
It is the largest island of forest remaining in West Africa remaining relatively intact.
The vegetation is predominantly dense evergreen ombrophilous forest of Upper Guinean type of 40xe2x80x9360 m emergent trees with massive trunks and large buttresses or stilt roots.
Two main types of forest can be recognised grading from diverse moist evergreen forest with leguminous trees in the southern third to moist semi-evergreen forest in the north.
The Sassandrian moist evergreen forest on schistose soils in the south-west is dominated by species such as ebony (Diospyros gabunensis), Diospyros chevalieri, Mapania baldwinii, Mapania linderi and Heritiera utilis (syn.
Since commercial timber exploitation officially ceased in 1972, the forest has recovered well, although large areas are dominated by planted species.
The forest plants still play a large role in the lives of people in the Taxc3xaf region.
The park contains 140 species of mammal and 47 of the 54 species of large mammal known to occur in the Guinean rain forest, including twelve regional endemics and five threatened species.
Also found in the park are two bats, Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat and Aellen's roundleaf bat, Pel's flying squirrel, giant pangolin, tree pangolin and long-tailed pangolin, Liberian mongoose, African golden cat, leopard, red river hog, giant forest hog, water chevrotain, bongo, and African forest buffalo.
African forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) have also been observed within the park, although in 2001 they numbered only about 100 individuals in the south of the park compared to some 1,800 in 1979.
Taxc3xaf National Park also hosts an exceptional diversity of forest duikers including Jentink's duiker, banded or zebra duiker, Maxwell's duiker, Ogilby's duiker, black duiker, bay duiker, yellow-backed duiker and the royal antelope.
Forest rodents include the rusty-bellied brush-furred rat, the Edward's swamp rat and the woodland dormouse.
Also recorded in the park is the Defua rat, which is characteristic of secondary forest.
There are 143 species typical of primary forest, including African crowned eagle, lesser kestrel, white-breasted guineafowl, rufous fishing owl, brown-cheeked hornbill, yellow-casqued hornbill, western wattled cuckooshrike, rufous-winged thrush-babbler, green-tailed bristlebill, yellow-throated olive greenbul, black-capped rufous-warbler, Nimba flycatcher, Sierra Leone prinia, Lagden's bushshrike, copper-tailed glossy-starling, white-necked rockfowl, and Gola malimbe.
The original tribes of the forest region were the Guxc3xa9rxc3xa9 and Oubi, for totemic reasons, did not eat chimpanzees and thus preserved the chimpanzee populations.
Of the three main groups of farmers, the rural Bakouxc3xa9 and Kroumen cleared forest selectively, sparing medicinal trees; by contrast the Baoulxc3xa9, in addition to the incomers who include refugees displaced by the dam on the Nxe2x80x99Zo river, from the Sahel and from the conflicts in both Liberia and Cxc3xb4te dxe2x80x99Ivoire who now form 90% of the population, have indiscriminately fragmented and destroyed much of the forest in the buffer zone.
The park was the site of a UNESCO Man & Biosphere project on the effects of human interference within the natural forest ecosystem.
There has been Ivorian research into forest termites, included under the IUCN/WWF Plants Campaign 1984-1985; and by the government Institute of Forestry into plantation crops.
However, a national workshop on the forest zone held in 2002 to 2003 focused on the lack of scientific research, monitoring, evaluation, coordination with foreign institutions and access to research done; also the persistence of low levels of popular participation and sustainable development of protected forest lands.
[14] A better inventory of the forest's resources is still needed.