page_title: Guadeloupe National Park
section_title: Wildlife
hierarchical_section_title: Guadeloupe National Park / Wildlife
caption_attribution_description: Procyon minor au Parc des Mamelles en Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre
context_page_description: Guadeloupe National Park is a national park in Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France located in the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean region. The Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin Nature Reserve is a marine protected area adjacent to the park and administered in conjunction with it. Together, these protected areas comprise the Guadeloupe Archipelago biosphere reserve.
context_section_description: Due to intensive hunting during an earlier period in Guadeloupe's history, animal life in the park is limited in diversity and in populations. Some species, including parrots and parakeets, have been eradicated altogether.
caption: The Guadeloupe raccoon.
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