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Cross River Complex
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 8.5%
Characterized by high species richness and endemism across many taxa, the Cross River Complex encompasses five protected areas : the Cross River National Park (Okwangwo & Oban Divisions), Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary (AMWS), and the Mbe Mountains Community Forest, Takamanda National Park and Korup National Park in Cameroon. Proposed as a World Heritage Site, this transboundary landscape is an important stronghold for the critically endangered Cross River gorilla (Africa’s rarest gorilla), Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, drill, Preuss’s guenon, and other endangered species. The vegetation of this landscape is mostly lowland and sub-montane closed canopy forest. The topography is rugged, and elevations range from 150m in the southern lowlands in the Oban Division of Cross River National Park and Korup National Park to around 1,700m on the edge of the Obudu plateau in the northern limit of the Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.