The Lake Télé Community Reserve is a protected area in the Republic of the Congo.

Ite covers 4,389 square kilometres (1,695 sq mi) around Lake Télé.

This discovery makes conservation of the area even more crucial, as if disturbed the carbon could escape into the atmosphere exacerbating global warming.

In light of this discovery, the Wildlife Conservation Society advocated expansion of the reserve.

[4] In 2006 and 2007 researchers from the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society investigated the region, finding evidence of an estimated population of 125,000 Western lowland gorillas.