Talk:Sapo National Park

Blue Clay People
Quite a bit of interesting information on Sapo can be found in William Powers' Blue Clay People. It is about his time during the inter-war period in Liberia with Catholic Relief Services. Someone with the book should try to add to the article concerning this slice of information. In case you were wondering, it is a unique tale and a worthy read.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 22:14, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip. If it's available in any nearby libraries, I'll try to obtain it; if it isn't, I'll either try to purchase it or find someone who owns a copy. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 18:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've read the book, and it was fascinating! Thank you for suggesting it. :)
 * The book contains a relatively little description of Sapo Park itself (pp. 146-149, 241-245), although the description contained is very emotive. However, it does include substantial information about environmental conditions in Liberia (including illegal logging, preservation efforts, and so on), which could be extremely useful for a background section. Thanks again, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Geography section
I noticed this article on the good article nominations page. It is a very good article and I was going to review it. However I felt that it needed some information about the park's geography so I added a geography section instead of reviewing it. I hope the new section is OK! Bláthnaid 15:09, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's great! I had tried including various bits of information about the park's size and location in the history section, but an article about a park and rainforest really does need a distinct section devoted to geography and climate. Since the section also includes information on seasons and temperatures, I have added "and climate" to the section title. What do you think? –Black Falcon (Talk) 18:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The section is much better now. Articles about African protected areas are really underdeveloped in comparison to the US and UK ones, so I really liked reading this article. Bláthnaid  12:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Information to be added, notes
Some notes I may not have time to add. As the article is about a park founded for its native species and plant endemics, these species deserved some discussion in the article, rather than just a passing mention. This is a suggestion for expansion rather than a criticism of the article's current state which is just fine.

The Rufous Fishing-owl is an owl species that is somewhat known for preferring virgin rain forests with large rivers for fishing, making its decimation in West Africa almost predestined. This species is known to be present in Sapo National Park and should be included in the article.

Also, let's get some help with an article about Alexander Louis Peal, the Liberian conservationist. I started it.

We need an article on the Sinoe River, also.

Other suggestions?

--Blechnic (talk) 23:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm currently trying to gather information for an article on the Sinoe River, and I can suggest this website as a source for biographical information about Peal. –Black Falcon (Talk) 00:41, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Blechnic, thanks for fixing this, I should have been clearer about the rainforest when I added that information to the article. Regarding suggestions, as the GA reviewer mentioned above a little information about the geology of the area would be good. National park featured articles tend to have quite a bit of geology information in them, so some mention of Sapo NP's geology might be needed if you want to push the article towards FA status. More recent temperature and precipitation numbers would be good too, since the numbers in the article are from the 1980s. Bláthnaid   talk  17:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can dig up about the geology. I believe this area of Liberia is composed of truly ancient rocks and lateritic soils, which means I've read something about the geology, so there should be a good article or two in print.  I'd still like to tweak the rainforest comment a bit so that readers understand what is and isn't standing primary rain forest in West Africa.  Most of Sapo has been clear cut, burned, made into roads, over the western historic past, like most of the tropical African rain forest, however this area and parts of Cote D'Ivoire have large remaining tracts within the national parks of what Westerners generally call virgin rain forest.  I would like first, though, to find a good source that explains this and any source on Sapo that elaborates on this point.  --Blechnic (talk) 18:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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Tourism
I just want to comment on this line in the article: "Due to its remote location and the near-complete absence of tangible amenities, such as visitor housing or recreational facilities, there are few visitors to Sapo National Park."

I just watched a travel video on youtube that showed the existence of facilities, including huts with electricity and showers in the middle of the jungle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9E7M3RRoI

So it is not as bleak as the article makes it out as. 84.210.20.34 (talk) 16:37, 12 July 2023 (UTC)