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[[Image:Pygmy hippo.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Pygmy hippos]]

[[Image:Pygmy hippo.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Pygmy hippos]]

[[Taï National Park]] is the last remaining area of the primary forest that once covered the territories of present-day [[Ghana]], [[Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Liberia]] and [[Sierra Leone]]. This humid tropical forest, located in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire, has a high level of [[Endemic|endemism]], and over 150 species have been identified as endemic to the Taï region. With an area of around 1274 square miles, the park is predominantly dense primary evergreen [[rain forest]], characterized by tall trees (130-200 feet) with massive trunks and sometimes large stilt roots.<ref>''Taï National Park'' Department of Primatology - Field Research [http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/files/field_research.htm Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]. Accessed 16 January 2008</ref> It is the largest island of forest remaining in West Africa. Some plants previously thought to be extinct (such as ''Amorphallus staudtii'') have been rediscovered in the area. Of the 54 species of large [[mammal]] known to occur in this type of rain forest, 47 are found in Taï, of which 5 are threatened, including the [[Hippopotamus|Pygmy hippopotamus]] (''Hexaprotodon liberiensis'').

[[Taï National Park]] is the last remaining area of the primary forest that once covered the territories of present-day [[Ghana]], [[Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Liberia]] and [[Sierra Leone]]. This humid tropical forest, located in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire, has a high level of [[Endemic|endemism]], and over 150 species have been identified as endemic to the Taï region. With an area of around 1274 square miles, the park is predominantly dense primary evergreen [[rain forest]], characterized by tall trees (130-200 feet) with massive trunks and sometimes large stilt roots.<ref>''Taï National Park'' Department of Primatology - Field Research [http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/files/field_research.htm Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]. Accessed 16 January 2008</ref> It is the largest island of forest remaining in West Africa. Some plants previously thought to be extinct (such as ''Amorphallus staudtii'') have been rediscovered in the area. Of the 54 species of large [[mammal]] known to occur in this type of rain forest, 47 are found in Taï, of which 5 are threatened, including the [[Hippopotamus|Pygmy hippopotamus]] (''Hexaprotodon liberiensis'').