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Salonga National Park - Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve protected by UNESCO

Baku, October 6, AZERTAC

Salonga National Park of the Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve.
Very isolated and only accessible by water transport, this vast Park (3,600,000 ha) contains the important evolution of both species and communities in a forest area still relatively intact.
The Park is also fundamental for the climate regulation and the sequestration of carbon, as it constitutes the habitat of numerous threatened species, including the pygmy chimpanzee (or bonobo), the bush elephant and the Congo peacock.
Moreover, it comprises vast marshland areas and practically inaccessible gallery forests, which have never been explored and may still be considered as practically virgin.
Inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1984, the Park is divided into two distinct sectors, suggesting that biological corridors must be foreseen in the unlisted portion between the two sectors, to create an ecological liaison between these two zones.

Culture 2022-10-06 20:36:00