Day Forest National Park

Coordinates: 11°48′N 42°41′E / 11.800°N 42.683°E / 11.800; 42.683
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Day Forest National Park
Day Forest National Park in the Goda Mountains.
Map showing the location of Day Forest National Park
Map showing the location of Day Forest National Park
Location in Djibouti
LocationTadjourah Region
 Djibouti
Nearest cityTadjoura
Coordinates11°48′N 42°41′E / 11.800°N 42.683°E / 11.800; 42.683
Area15 km2
Established1939[1]

Day Forest National Park, also known as Forêt du Day National Park, is a

national park in the Goda Mountains and Tadjourah Region of Djibouti.[2] The region is one of the very few forested areas of Djibouti, which taken as a whole is one of the least forested countries
on Earth. It is the wettest part of Djibouti, receiving some 500 millimetres (19 in) of precipitation annually.

Flora

Flora of the Day Forest National Park.

Along with

Mount Mabla, the Forêt du Day National Park is one of Djibouti's two remnant areas of closed−protected forests.[3]
It protects an important forest island in a sea of semi-desert.

It has four dominant tree species:

native plants
.

This is the largest forest in Djibouti. The forest has a total area of approximately 5,900 hectares (14,500 acres). The most valuable part of national park is 900 hectares (2,223 acres) large stand of East African junipers Juniperus procera which grows in the heights above 950 m. Junipers here reach height of 20 m, but many trees have died off in recent decades, while the boxwood B. hildebrandtii is expanding in their stead.

Fauna

Notable animals found here include the

endemic to Djibouti, and except for the Francolin they have only ever been found within Day Forest.[5]

More widespread birds inhabiting the forest are Gambaga flycatcher (Muscicapa gambagae), Somali bulbul (Pycnonotus (barbatus) somaliensis) and Somali starling (Onychognathus blythii).[5]

The rare

colubrid snake Platyceps afarensis
is also found here.

Conservation

The

years.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 9782831700922
    . Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  2. ISBN 9781741049886
    . Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Djibouti - Forestry". Djibouti Wildlife. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  4. ^ "BirdLife IBA Factsheet: DJ001 - Forêt de Day" Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, BirdLife International website (accessed 16 May 2010)
  5. ^ a b "DJIBOUTI & SOMALILAND Birding Tours with BIRDQUEST". Archived from the original on 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  6. ^ "Ethiopian montane forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.. Accessed 15 January 2009.

External links

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