Ebo Wildlife Reserve, Wildlife reserve in southwestern Cameroon

Ebo Wildlife Reserve is a 1,417 km² protected area of lowland and montane forest mosaic in Cameroon, 20 km north of the Sanaga River. It lies partly in the Littoral Region and partly in the Centre Region, within the Nkam, Sanaga Maritime and Mbam-et-Inoubou departments. The Ebo Forest Research Station was established in April 2005.

A research station was established in 2005 that launched biological studies of the area. These investigations revealed biodiversity levels comparable to other important biological centers in the region.

Local communities practice traditional food gathering and medicinal plant collection within the forest. These activities remain central to how people interact with the land today.

The forest lies about 20 km north of the Sanaga River, spread across the Littoral and Centre regions in the Nkam, Sanaga Maritime and Mbam-et-Inoubou departments. There is no national park status, and access tracks are limited; the Ebo Forest Research Station, set up in April 2005, is the main base for scientific visits. A road begun in 2022 through the southern part was suspended.

In Ebo Forest the same chimpanzee population both fishes for termites with sticks and cracks nuts with quartz hammerstones and wooden clubs, a combination recorded nowhere else. Biologist Ekwoge Abwe documented this behaviour, and in 2011 Cameroon adopted a national Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Action Plan.