UN OFFICIAL ALARMED OVER RISING VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NATURE RESERVE

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UN OFFICIAL ALARMED OVER RISING VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
NATURE RESERVENew York, May 6 2013 1:00PMThe head of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has
expressed deep concern over the rise of poaching, armed violence and
destruction in the Central African Republic's (CAR) Dzanga-Sanga
National Park, which is on the agency's World Heritage List.

"I ask the Central African authorities to act quickly and to do
everything possible to restore order in the region and to ensure the
conservation of the protected area of Dzanga-Sanga," said UNESCO's
Director-General Irina Bokova.

Last month, men in uniform carried out repeated attacks around the
Park, looting equipment from the administration buildings and
destroying the facilities.

The park is part of the Sangha Trinational Site (TNS) situated in the
north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, CAR and Congo meet, and
encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling around 750,000
hectares.

Much of the TNS is unaffected by human activity and features a wide
range of humid tropical forest ecosystems with rich flora and fauna.
Lowland gorillas and forest elephants are two unique species living
within the park. The site was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage
List last year.

Ms. Bokova called on the Governments of the Republic of Congo and the
Republic of Cameroon, which share the World Heritage site with CAR,
"to share this message with the authorities in Bangui and to take all
necessary measures to ensure the protection of the Nouabalé-Ndoki and
Lobéké National Parks in facing this new threat."

She also sent a message to the CAR's Prime Minister, Nicolas Tiangaye,
asking him to take urgent measures to ensure the protection of the
park and the safety of its people.

In addition, Ms. Bokova said she is alarmed by the upsurge in poaching
in Africa, where some 30,000 elephants are killed each year. Many
World Heritage properties in Central Africa have recently reported a
significant decrease in their elephant and other large mammal
populations, and experts fear that organized groups of poachers are
taking advantage of the current political situation to expand their
operations in the region.

UNESCO has been supporting the TNS site for nearly ten years, with
funding from the UN Foundation, the French Fund for the Global
Environment and the European Commission.May 6 2013 1:00PM
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