[1] Poaching occurs in the park, and in 1968 there was considerable reduction of large mammal populations by the 'Service de l'Elevage'.

[1] In 1989, the International Union for Conservation of Nature recommended that "The legal status of Deux Balés National Park should be reviewed, in light of agricultural and mining activities which conflict with the integrity of its elephant populations".

[2] By 2001, Burkina Faso was sheltering the largest number of elephants in West Africa, and Deux Balés (together with Baporo Forest) was home to roughly 400 of them.

[3] The National Park is part of an undulating granitic plain, with outcrops of rock and lateritic plateaux.

[3] The vegetation comprises Sudano-Zambezian savanna with a carpet of grasses, and trees such as Anogeissus leiocarpus, Isoberlinia doka and Terminalia laxiflora.