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Creation of Ogoué-Leketi National Park

Press release

November 09, 2018
Creation of Ogoué-Leketi National Park
On the 9th of November 2018 Her Excellency Rosalie Matondo, the Republic of Congo’s Minister of Forestry Economy, the US Ambassador, Todd Haskell, the Mission Director to USAID/DRC, Paul Sabatine, the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Congo program, and local authorities, gathered in Sibiti in the Lekoumou Department to create, by official decree, Congo’s fifth national park - the Ogooué-Leketi National Park. A new protected area has been created in the Re...

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Tags: Policy & partnership, Protected areas, Social Safeguards