Lamto

The Station of Ecology of Lamto is a research station in Écologie located at the center of the Ivory Coast. Installed in edge of the Bandama in a natural reserve of 2 5OO hectares in contact with the forest zones and Savanna with rôniers of “V” Baoulé.

The station of Lamto was founded in 1962 by two French scientists, Maxime Lamotte and Jean-Luc Tournier to continue the first research led before to the Mont Nimba on the structure and the operation of these herbaceous Biocénose S. The Ivory Coast had been retained in particular because of “the spirit of co-operation which reigned there on the level of the Government”.

Depending on CNRS then attached to the university of Abidjan, Lamto was a long time an active center of study and formation pluridisiciplinaires in tropical ecology, under the aegis of the laboratory of Zoologie then of Écologie of the National university, and one of the founders places of ecology in Ivory Coast. During forty years, the many researchers who followed one another there devoted important work on the biocénoses and the operation of the ecosystems of the Savane, in particular within the framework of international research programs (International Biological Programme…).

Schools African sets of themes on the Sustainable development had been initiated there before the military disorders which disturbed the Ivory Coast since the end of the year 1990 and the interruption of any French co-operation do not restrict the activities of the station largely.

External bonds

the official site of the station of Ecology.

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