Niokolo-Koba National Park is a large protected area in southeastern Senegal, along the Gambia River and close to the border with Guinea. The area was set aside as a reserve in the 1920s and became a national park in 1954. Its habitats of savanna, gallery forest and wetlands shelter lions, leopards, elephants, hippopotamuses, chimpanzees and the Derby eland, the largest antelope in Africa. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981, but poaching, illegal gold mining and the effects of a planned dam brought it onto the list of sites in danger in 2007. Conservation efforts have continued to protect its wildlife.
Before and after
- 1954Construction of Wien-Schwechat Airport
- 1954Geneva Conference
- from 1954 to 1968Civil rights movement
- 1954Origins of Wicca
- 1 January 1954Establishment of Niokolo-Koba National Park
- 1954Establishment of W National Park
- 22 January 1954Establishment of Teide National Park
- 29 January 1954Birth of Oprah Winfrey
- 18 February 1954Birth of John Travolta
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