Created in 1970 by former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, it was inscribed in 1984 on the World Heritage List and in 1999 in the List of World Heritage in Danger
Salonga National Park in Democratic Republic of the Congo has been removed from Unesco's list of World Heritage sites in danger
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 bonobo, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted or 'false' crocodile
Unesco praised DRC's conservation efforts and the government's commitment to ban prospecting for oil in Salonga, the vast central African country's largest public park
Salonga National Park is Africa's largest protected rainforest and home to 40 per cent of the Earth's bonobo apes, along with several other endangered species
Created in 1970 by former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, it was inscribed in 1984 on the World Heritage List and in 1999 in the List of World Heritage in Danger
Salonga National Park in Democratic Republic of the Congo has been removed from Unesco's list of World Heritage sites in danger
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 bonobo, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted or 'false' crocodile
Unesco praised DRC's conservation efforts and the government's commitment to ban prospecting for oil in Salonga, the vast central African country's largest public park
Salonga National Park is Africa's largest protected rainforest and home to 40 per cent of the Earth's bonobo apes, along with several other endangered species
Created in 1970 by former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, it was inscribed in 1984 on the World Heritage List and in 1999 in the List of World Heritage in Danger
