Therecentdiscoveryof a newpopulation of thiselusivecrab hasled toitsconservationstatusbeingreclassifiedfrom "critical" to "endangered" on the 2008 RedList of ThreatenedSpecies.
The site is critical for the survival of several species of endangered waterbirds, to which the key threat is large-scale egg and chick collection by villagers.
As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.