The Tamou Total Reserve is a nature reserve in the southwest of

Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ...

. It is a Total Faunal Reserve IUCN type IV, covering some 75,600 hectares within the Tillaberi Region. The reserve abuts W du Niger, and is primarily dedicated to the protection of

African Elephant African elephants are members of the genus ''Loxodonta'' comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (''L. africana'') and the smaller African forest elephant (''L. cyclotis''). Both are social herbivores with grey skin. ...

populations which migrate through the region.

References

unep-wcmc site recordWorld Database on Protected Areas / UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008.Biodiversity and Protected Areas-- Niger
Earth Trends country profile (2003) {{authority control National parks of Niger Protected areas established in 1962