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	Bioko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bioko (spelled also Bioco) is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, formerly called Fernando Pó or Fernando Póo.
		Portugal ceded to Spain Fernando Póo, Annobón and the Guinea coast (modern Equatorial Guinea) in 1778, with the Treaty of El Pardo, signed between Queen Maria II of Portugal and King Charles III of Spain, in exchange for territory in the American continent.
		The island was used as a base for flights into Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bioko (301 words)

	Bioko Island conservation
		Bioko Island, the largest of the Gulf of Guinea Islands, has a surprising variety of native monkeys: four species of guenons ("cercopithecine monkeys"), two species of colobus, and the drill, a large baboon-like monkey that is now considered to be the most endangered primate in all of Africa.
		In the last fifteen years, Bioko Island, like much of the rest of West and Central Africa, has developed an unsustainable commercial bushmeat trade, where forest animals are hunted to be sold as a delicacy in city markets.
		Already forest buffalo, swamp otters, and palm civets are known to have been hunted to extinction on the island, and at the present rates of hunting, several of the monkey species, especially the highly endangered drill, will vanish from the island in the next five to ten years.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /bioko.htm (781 words)

	Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island (Spanish: Movimiento para la Auto-determinación de la Isla de Bioko) is a proscribed political organization in Equatorial Guinea.
		It is supported by the Bubi ethnic group, which dominates Bioko island (home of the national capital).
		The Unión Bubi wanted the Spanish government to separate the Bubi-dominated Bioko and the Fang-dominated Río Muni (the mainland half of Equatorial Guinea) because, if the nation were united, the Bubi would be at the mercy of the Fang, who greatly outnumbered them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Movement_for_the_Self-Determination_of_Bioko_Island (285 words)

	THE EXPLOITATION OF PRUNUS AFRICANA ON THE ISLAND OF BIOKO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA
		The rectangular-shaped island of Bioko, formerly Fernando Póo, lies 32 km from the coast of Cameroon.
		Bioko island itself is dominated by three volcanic peaks, Pico de Basilé (3,010m) in the north, and Pico Biao (2,010m) and Gran Caldera de Luba (2,261m) in the south.
		Exell, A.W. The vegetation of the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.
	www.ggcg.st /bioko/bioko_prunus.htm (5392 words)

	Gulf of Guinea Islands Biodiversity Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The theory of island biogeography (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967) indicates that the richness of an island's fauna and flora is proportional to that island's distance from source areas, the island's size, and its elevation.
		Since it is known that Bioko was in contact with the mainland during relatively recent periods of lowered sea level, this island should serve as a benchmark of which species are available to provide a source for island hopping of fauna and flora from the mainland lowlands and Mt. Cameroon.
		Principe is the oldest of the Gulf of Guinea Islands not near the mainland.
	www.calacademy.org /research/guinea_islands (1575 words)

	Equatorial Guinea article - Equatorial Guinea Africa Cameroon Gabon Gulf Guinea Malabo Detail motto Official - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The islands of Fernando Póo and Annobón were colonized by the Portuguese in 1474.
		The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogoue Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange for territory in South America (Treaty of El Pardo).
		The Bubi, who constitute 15% of the population, are indigenous to Bioko Island.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Equatorial_Guinea (770 words)

	Equatorial Guinea (09/05)
		Bioko Island is volcanic, with three major peaks of 9,876 feet, 7,416 feet and 6,885 feet.
		Bioko Island, called Fernando Po until the 1970s, is the largest island in the Gulf of Guinea--2,017 square kilometers (780 sq.
		The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogoue Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange for territory in South America (Treaty of Pardo).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/7221.htm (7340 words)

	Study Abroad in Bioko, Africa with Arcadia University
		Bioko Island is an ideal setting for students interested in becoming actively involved in field biology and conservation with ecosystems ranging from fl sand beaches, mangrove and lowland rain forest to alpine shrub lands at more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
		Bioko Island is considered to be a primate biodiversity hot spot, and it possesses one of the best turtle nesting beaches in Africa.
		Bioko Island is home to fewer than 100,000 people, and almost all are concentrated in the capital city of Malabo.
	www.arcadiaabroad.com /africafieldstudies/bioko_africa.html (634 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bioko Bioko, formally Fernando Po, is the largest of the series of islands that constitute part of Equatorial Guinea.
		Bioko is rectangular in shape and lies at 3° 30' 0 N and 8° 41' 60 E. The island lies 32 km from Mount Cameroon.
		Bioko The Island of Bioko is a protuberance from a geological fracture running between West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea.
	extension.osu.edu /~ockint/countries/Equatorial_Guinea.doc (2735 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests (AT0121)
		The Mount Cameroon and Bioko Montane Forests ecoregion is located in a volcanic chain that extends northeast along the border between Cameroon and Nigeria, and southwest towards the Guinea islands of São Tomé, Príncipe and Annobon.
		The Mount Cameroon and Bioko Montane Forests ecoregion is considered distinct from the Cameroonian Highlands because of the younger age and activity of Mount Cameroon, reflected in the distributions (or absence) of many restricted-range taxa.
		Bioko was connected to the mainland during lower sea levels towards the end of the last Ice Age.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0121_full.html (2206 words)

	Equatorial Wales - Country Background
		The island of Bioko is mountainous and thickly wooded, with a steep, rocky coast.
		Portugal ceded the island to Spain in 1778 and, in 1844, the Spanish settled in the mainland area that became the province of Río Muni.
		Extreme dictatorial and repressive policies in both Bioko and the mainland led to the flight of an estimated 100,000 refugees to neighboring countries; at least 50,000 of those who remained were killed, and another 40,000 were sent into forced labor.
	members.fortunecity.com /equatorialwales/background.htm (1061 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests (AT0107)
		The Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests ecoregion comprises the lowland and coastal forests of southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon, and the lowlands of the island of Bioko.
		Mt. Cameroon and Bioko are volcanoes, and in consequence adjacent parts of the ecoregion have soils, rocks and fl sand beaches derived from pyroclastic lava and ash.
		The Bioko lowland forest shares close biological affinities with the adjacent mainland forests because it was connected to the mainland during lower sea levels towards the end of the last Ice Age, and thus is included in this ecoregion.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0107_full.html (2421 words)

	Fernando Poo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bioko Island (also called Fernando Po, formerly Macias Nguema Biyogo), Equatorial Guinea, island off west coast of Africa, in Gulf of Guinea; area 779 square miles (2,018 square km); population 63,000.
		Bioko Island, known as Fernando Po until 1973, was administered by the British from 1827 to 1858.
		Bioko Island is made up of volcanic cones, crater lakes, and rich lava soils.
	homepages.pavilion.co.uk /glyng/d_poo.html (329 words)

	Equatorial Guinee - Travelling to Equatorial Guinee - Holiday in Equatorial Guinee - www.reiswijs.co.uk
		Cameroon and Gabon, and the island of Annobon [ Gulf of Guinea islands ].
		The tropical island of Bioko is one of the most beautiful and most biologically-significant places in all of Africa.
		Bioko Island is part of a volcanic chain formed in the middle and late Tertiary that extends diagonally across the Gulf of Guinea from the British island of St. Helena (Napoleon's final exile) in the South Atlantic northeast toward Lake Chad, at the northern tip of Cameroon (Kingdon, 1989; Gonzalez-Kirchner, 1994).
	www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/africa/eq-guinee/eq-guinee.html (1311 words)

	Search Results for Bioko - Encyclopædia Britannica
		island in the Bight of Biafra (Gulf of Guinea), lying about 60 miles (100 km) off the coast of southern Nigeria and 100 miles (160 km) northwest of continental Equatorial Guinea, western Africa.
		The climate of both the continental region and the islands is typically equatorial, with high temperatures, heavy rainfall, and much cloud cover most of the year.
		It lies on the northern edge of the island of Bioko (or Fernando Po) on the rim of a sunken volcano.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Bioko&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (433 words)

	Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Each year in January, the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program organizes a 3-week expedition (departure during the last week of December) to Bioko Island's remote and rarely visited Gran Caldera de Luba to conduct a census of primates and sea turtles.
		While the expedition is a valuable source of field experience for those studying conservation biology, ecology, primatology, or anthropology, many research assistants find the trip alone is one of the formative experiences of their lives.
		Status of Bioko Island Primates: Our July 2001 report (1.5 MG in PDF format) on the conservation status of Bioko Island's monkeys is still available.
	www.bioko.org (698 words)

	MapZones.com : Equatorial Guinea Map
		The capital is Malabo on the island of Bioko.
		The original inhabitants of Bioko are the Bubi, descendants of Bantu migrants from the mainland.
		Portugal ceded the island to Spain in 1778.
	atlas.mapzones.com /equatorial_guinea/equatorial_guinea.php (1821 words)

	Equatorial Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It borders Cameroon on the north, Gabon on the south and east, and the Gulf of Guinea on the west, where the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe lie to its southwest.
		Formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Guinea, the country's territory (continentally known as Río Muni) includes a number of islands, including the sizable island of Bioko where the capital, Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel), is located.
		The Bubi, who constitute 15 percent of the population, are indigenous to Bioko Island.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Equatorial-Guinea.htm (1354 words)

	Meckes: The Endangered Mandrillus Leucophaeus: Behavior Leading Toward Extinction
		Bioko Island is a poor developing country where drills are hunted and sold as “bushmeat” for its sweet taste (Schaaf, Struhsaker, Hearn, 1990).
		Although, Bioko is a poor developing country where hunters make their living hunting primates, the Drill’s unique behavior has also contributed to being hunted to extinction.
		Drills are found in the lowland rain forest, coastal, and riverine forest and in mature secondary forest of Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko Island - Equatorial Guinea; they have never been seen in the open country or savanna (Gartlin, 1970).
	www.anthropology.emory.edu /EA/meckes.html (2521 words)

	Bioko Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger thana rock, that is completely surrounded by water.
		Continental islands are bodies of land that are connected by the continental shelf to a continent.
		That is, these islands are part of an adjacent continent and arelocated on the continental shelf of that continent.
	www.daikaiju.com /edge/45414-bioko%20island.html (303 words)

	Bioko -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The island was named after the first president of the country in 1973, but Bioko became the local official name after he was deposed in 1979.
		The city is located on the northern edge of Bioko Island 21 miles (34 kilometers) off the coast of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea.
		The island is volcanic in origin and is mountainous.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9079260?tocId=9079260 (645 words)

	Dispatches from Africa: A beach landing in the rainforest
		In the four hours since our expedition to save endangered species arrived at this remote beach on the southern coast of Bioko island, we’ve probably seen at least one inch out of the more than 30 feet of rain that falls here every year.
		As we rounded the southwest corner of Bioko island, the group paused to observe a local custom – taking a sip of rum, but throwing some of it overboard to acknowledge the ancestors.
		As we circled Bioko island, the dramatic landscape played out in front of us – the base of an ancient volcano, its sides cut by deep ravines and covered in dense forest, with misty clouds rising from the chasms.
	bioko.blogspot.com /2004/12/beach-landing-in-rainforest.html (638 words)

	BBPP: Bioko Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bioko Island is an 800 square mile island located 20 miles (32 km) off the coast of Cameroon in west central Africa.
		Bioko, formerly Fernando Po, is a part of the African country of Equatorial Guinea, known as Spanish Guinea before its independence from Spain in 1968.
		Equatorial Guinea also includes Rio Muni, a mainland rectangle of land between Cameroon and Gabon, and the island of Annobon, another one of the Gulf of Guinea islands.
	www.bioko.org /island (84 words)

	Un mot d'Histoire - Histoire de l'archéologie de la Guinée Equatoriale
		Some containers discovered in pits directly have certain similarities with the pottery discovered by Martin del Molino on the Bioko island (1965, fig 10B 1) and on the other hand, Guinean dates are consistant with to those obtained in Gabon, (Peyrot, Clist et Oslishy, 1990).
		However, the rest of Bioko island production cannot be close to that of group II of Gabon.
		As I mentioned earlier, it is not probable that the cultural period from the recent stone age to the Neolithic inclusive and which is still to be excavated in the littoral province was different from the one discovered in Cameroon, in the North and similar to the one in southern Gabon.
	www.ceiba-guinea-ecuatorial.org /guineeangl/histarche.htm (1758 words)

	Equatorial Guinea - Culture and Environment Cultura y Naturaleza
		Bubi, one of the West Bantu languages, is spoken on Bioko Island.
		It is largely used as a means of communication on the Island of Bioko, except for the mountains of Moka, Bioko, Balacha and the meridian zone of Ureka.
		Pidgin English was "transferred" to Equatorial Guinea (particularly Bioko Island) from the region of Calabar (Nigeria) in the 18th Century, when slaves were freed to the city of Clarence.
	www.orgitecture.com /guinea/event1390/event_show.htm?doc_id=2715 (789 words)

	PRIMATES
		Notes on its habitat use on Bioko Island are reported by Gonzalez-Kirchner (1996); population number and species density were also investigated on Bioko Island (Arihà) (Maté and Colell, 1995).
		Data on the species’ distribution are available for part of former Zaire (Colyn, 1987; 1988), Bioko Island (Butynski and Koster, 1994), Gabon (Blom et al., 1992), part of Congo and Cameroon (Mitani, 1990; Usongo and Fimbel, 1995), and Angola (Feiler, 1990).
		A first rough map was drawn by joining its distribution range on Bioko Island taken from Butynski and Koster (1994) with the mainland one taken from Lernould (1988); the extent of occurrence was then revised on the basis of the river network (Fig.
	www.gisbau.uniroma1.it /amd/amd050.html (982 words)

	Equatorial Guinea
		Cocoa and coffee were the main agricultural exports of the 1980s, particularly before the development of the petroleum reserves off the north coast of Bioko, and cocoa is still key for employment.
		This to a large extent is the result of weak and non-transparent public finance management organization and the difficulties encountered in defining a development strategy that would help the country avoid the pitfalls of other oil-producing developing countries.
		Bioko and the mainland province of Rio Muni were joined to form Equatorial Guinea in 1963, and granted partial self-government.
	us-africa.tripod.com /eqguinea.html (571 words)

	Santa Isabel, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bioko (formerly called Fernando Poo) is one of the four volcanic islands that comprise the small nation of Equatorial Guinea in the Gulf of Guinea.
		The island is home to seven species of endangered primates and three species of bushbabies.
		The island has been home for 3,000 years to the Bubi tribe, which evolved independent of outside influences until the last few hundred years.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/africa/santeis.html (245 words)

	River Blindness in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
		River blindness is also endemic on Bioko - one of Equatorial Guinea's islands in the Gulf of Guinea - but this was never part of the main WHO flfly-control programme.
		The collaborative study has shown that the vector on Bioko is a previously undescribed biotype of the flfly species and is endemic to the island.
		It is hoped that the insects will be eliminated during 2002 in a concerted control campaign that will prevent 75,000 people and their descendants from ever suffering the debilitating and blinding effects of this horrific disease.
	www.nri.org /work/pahh-blackflies.htm (405 words)

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