Lake Chad Chad Game Reserve, which covers half of the area next to the lake that belongs to Nigeria. The whole lake has been declared a Ramsar site of international importance. Speaking at the United Nations 73rd General Assembly, the President of Nigeria urged the international community to assist in combatting the root causes of conflict surrounding the Lake Chad Endorheic basin. Recent violence in the region has been attributed to competition between farmers and herders seeking irrigation for crops and watering of herds respectively. Plans to divert the Ubangi River into Lake Chad were proposed in 1929 by Herman Sörgel in
Wildlife of Cameroon Boumba–Bek, the Boumba Bek National Park covering , and the Lobéké National Park covering (integrated with the Trinational Park of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo and linked with an Eco-corridor to Boumba–Bek Reserve; the Campo Ma'an National Park of , which borders with the Rio de Campo of Equatorial Guinea; and the Savanna Zone comprising the Waza National Park of near Chad border, Faro National Park of area with common boundary with Nigeria, and the Kalamaloué National Park of on the Chad border. Cameroon's first protected area in the northern part of the country was