Editing Lado Enclave (section)

===Fauna and flora===
The enclave was well known for its enormous herds of elephants<ref name="Buckley1931">{{cite journal |author=C.C. |title=Review: ''Big Game Hunting in Central Africa'' by W[illiam] Buckley |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=77 |issue=3 |date=March 1931 |pages=275–276 |doi=10.2307/1783855 |jstor=1783855 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1931-03_77_3/page/275/ |access-date=2024-01-11}}</ref> which drew [[big-game hunter]]s from around the world. Starting about six weeks after Leopold's death in December 1909,<ref name="Bell1923"/> from the years 1910 to 1912, hunters arrived in great numbers and shot thousands of elephants before Sudanese officials were able to take control of the area.<ref name="Buckley1931"/> One of the most prolific was the Scottish adventurer [[W. D. M. Bell]].<ref name="Bell1923">{{cite book |title=The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter |chapter=The Lado Enclave |author=[[W. D. M. Bell]] |publisher=George Newnes |location=London |year=1923 |page=98 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofelep1923bell/page/n151/ |access-date=2024-01-11 |quote=Presently King Leopold of Belgium died, and the evacuation of the Lado began. [...] Finding themselves in a country where even murder went unpunished, every man became a law unto himself. Uganda could not touch him, the Sudan had no jurisdiction for six months, and the Belgians had gone. Some of the men went utterly bad and behaved atrociously to the natives, but the majority were too decent to do anything but hunt elephants. [...] The game was shot at, missed, wounded or killed by all sorts of people who had not the rudiments of hunter-craft or rifle shooting. The Belgian posts on the new frontier saw with alarm this invasion of heavily armed safaris [...]}}</ref>

Hippopotami were described as having been "extremely numerous and particularly obtrusive" in the enclave but their presence had dropped to almost zero during the enclave's existence.<ref>Gleichen, p. 80.</ref>

In 1912, renowned naturalist Dr [[Edgar Alexander Mearns]] travelled through the enclave as part of his expedition through eastern Africa searching for new fauna, and reported a new subspecies of [[Temminck's courser]] within the enclave.<ref>"Recent Literature", ''The Auk'', vol. 33, no. 1. (January 1916), American Ornithologists' Union. p. 89.</ref>