Mount Nimba is a mountain along the border of Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea in West Africa. At 1,752 m it is the highest point in all three nations. It is part of the Nimba Massif. Since 1944 the area is a "strict" reserve, where tourism is absolutely forbidden. Mount Richard-Molard is a mountain along the border of Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea in West Africa. At 1,752 m (5,750 ft) it is the highest point in both nations. The mountain is the highest peak of the Nimba Range (the "Guinean Backbone"), straddling the border between the two countries and Liberia. The nearest major settlement are the town Yekepa to the west in Liberia and Bossou in Guninea. Since 1944 the area, excluding Liberia's portion, has been a nature reserve. Currently covering 180 km², the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is classified as a World Heritage Site, including both rainforest and savanna. It is a "strict" reserve, forbidding tourism. The mountain is rich in iron ore. There was intensive mining in the Liberian portion of the mountain until reserves were exhausted in 1989. The mix of iron-quartzite sheets, schists and granitogneiss has produced startling land formations by soil erosion. The mountain is named after the French Geograph Jacques Richarld-Molard, who perished 1951 at the mountain site due to an accident[2]. Before that it was called Mount Nouon[3], sometimes the term Mount Nimba, which is the name of whole range, is used for its highest peak as well.
...1,000 feet (300 metres) above sea level. Most of the western border with Liberia and Guinea is shaped by mountain ranges, whose highest point, Mount Nimba (5,740 feet [1,752 metres]; see also Nimba Range), is situated in the the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (designated a UNESCO World... The Forest Region, or Guinea Highlands, is a historically isolated area of hills in the country’s southeastern corner. Mount Nimba (5,748 feet [1,752 metres]), the highest mountain in the region, is located at the borders of Guinea, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire. The rocks of this region are of the same composition as those of Upper Guinea. Guinea Highlands ( in Guinea Highlands (plateau, Africa) ..averages more than 1,500 feet (460 metres) in elevation and is covered with variegated rainforest and humid savanna. Several mountain ranges rise above its surface, including the Nimba Range (Mount Nimba, 5,748 feet [1,752 metres]) and Sierra Leone’s Loma Mountains (Mount Loma Mansa, 6,391 feet [1,948 metres]) and Tingi Mountains (Sankanbiriwa, 6,080 feet [1,853 metres]), where its... ...with scattered low mountains ranging from 600 to 1,000 feet in elevation; some mountains rise to 2,000 feet. A striking feature of the mountainous northern highlands along the Guinea frontier is Mount Nimba.
Environmentalists trying to save chimpanzees at a UNESCO World Heritage protected area in Guinea are facing resistance from villagers who say their needs are being ignored. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from the Mount Nimba nature reserve, in eastern Guinea, about the difficult balance between environmental and economic concerns. Chimpanzee does tree top picking, Bossou, Guinea, 30 Jan 08 Scientists and guides marvel as one of the 13 remaining chimpanzees from Bossou does an acrobatic treetop demonstration of quickly picking berries from one branch and the next. After the impressive display, scientist Sakho Djemory walks toward plants he has been cultivating. Djemory has been arranging a natural corridor of plants chimpanzees like to eat. Djemory explains the idea is for the mostly male Bossou chimpanzees to travel to other parts of the reserve where there are more female chimpanzees, like on Mount Nimba, so they can reproduce. Chimpanzees travel where they can find food they like. Scientist Djemory shows plants for chimp corridor, Bossou, Guinea, 30 Jan 08 But Djemory say many of the plants have been burned down by people. He says scientists explain to villagers why the planting is taking place, but says some villagers keep repeating that it is their land that is being taken away. Local guide Pascal Gomis, who leads a group of scientists into dense forest to see some of the other chimpanzees, says people have much to learn from the animals and should be proud of having them close by. "I see chimpanzees as important, as important as human beings, and very intelligent," Gomis said. "A chimpanzee cannot marry a sister, and a sister cannot marry a brother. So they are intelligent animals." But he says villagers are sometimes jealous that he has a job working for Japanese researchers, while they do not. Chimp guide Pascal Gomis, Bossou, Guinea, 30 Jan 08 "Some people, they are jealous, because they do not have money, food, when they see their friend getting a job and some small, small money there," Gomis said. "They cannot understand. They cannot understand, because they do not have anything to eat, they do not have money."
