Add PhotoSalonga National Park
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date of Inscription: 1984
Criteria: (vii)(ix) Core zone: 3600000 ha Provinces of Equateur, Bandundu and Kasaï Oriental and Occidental S2 00 E21 00 Ref: 280 Inscription Year on the List of World Heritage in Danger: 1999 |
Brief Description
Salonga National Park is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. Situated at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, the park is very isolated and accessible only by water. It is the habitat of many endemic endangered species, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted or 'false' crocodile.
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