The outbreak of the First Ivorian Civil War, in September 2002, resulted in the loss of the entire removable and demountable equipment and the closure of the station.

[2] Due to the positive development in the country after the Second Ivorian Civil War, the rehabilitation of the station started in 2012 with remaining funds from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the University of Würzburg.

In its first 2 decades before the civil war over 20 international research institutions conducted projects at the station with over 100 scientists contributing to the over 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

[6] Research institutions currently working at the station are:[5] The research station is also a base for the longterm and large scale monitoring program in the BMBF's WASCAL project (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use)[7] and was one of the headquarters for the BIOTA West project focused in Côte d'Ivoire until the outbreak of the civil war.

[8] It also works closely together with the park management (OIPR, Office Ivorien des Parcs et Reserves) on matters of conservation.