Togo

Togo is a narrow strip running from an Atlantic coast of barely fifty kilometres to the Sudanian savannah of the far north, crossed diagonally by the Togo mountains, a line of wooded hills that culminates in Mount Agou. That range holds back the moisture and supports semi-humid forests with primates, pangolins, tree hyraxes and a notable forest birdlife, protected in Fazao-Malfakassa park. To the north, Kéran park and the Oti-Kéran reserve keep wooded savannahs where elephants, hippopotamuses and antelopes are still recorded. In the south, Lake Togo and the Aného lagoon form coastal wetlands with residual mangroves, crocodiles and waterbirds, and the beaches of the Gulf of Guinea receive the nesting of several sea turtle species.