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Salonga National Park

Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo · built 1970

Salonga National Park (Parc National de la Salonga) is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in the Congo River basin. It is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve covering about 36,000 km2 or 3,600,000 hectares (8, 900, 000 acres). It extends into the provinces of Mai Ndombe, Equateur, Kasaï and Sankuru. In 1984, the national park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for its protection of a large swath of relatively intact rainforest and its important habitat for many rare species. In 1999, the site has been listed as endangered due to poaching and housing construction. Following the improvement in its state of conservation, the site was removed from the endangered list in 2021.

NatureReserve data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other nature-reserves in Democratic Republic of the Congo