Kahuzi Biega National Park in Congo

Kahuzi Biega National Park - Congo

A gigantic area of the primary tropical wood controls through two sensational gone out volcanoes, Kahuzi and Biega, the park has a different and plentiful fauna. One of the last groups of the east lowland (graueri) gorillas (the existence from only about 250 persons) lives in between 2,100 and 2,400 ms about the sea level.

Wonderful Universal Importance

On the Albertine Rift and the washing bowl of Congo Kahuzi-Biega astride sitting, national park is an unusual habitat for the protection of the rain forest and the east lowland-gorillas, gorilla berengei graueri. More than 600,000 ha extending, are thick lowland rain forests as well as Afro-montane woods, with bamboo woods and some small areas of subalpine Prärien and heather on racks Kahuzi (3,308 m) and Biega (2,790 m). The park contains a flora and fauna of the unusual dissimilarity, it one of the most important sides in the break Albertine Valley doing, this is also one of the ecologically richest areas of Africa and worldwide. In particular the most important world population of east lowland-gorillas (or de gray), subspecies endemically to the democratic republic of Congo (DRC) and registers under the theendangered category on the IUCN red data book, uses the mosaic of habitats found in the property.

Wide Report

The park has lain in the east part of the land, 50 kms in the west of the town of Bukavu, close lake Kivu and the Rwandan border. There is of a smaller sector on the eastern side which covers a part of the Mitumba mountains, and a bigger west sector in the Zairean main washing bowl. Two zones are connected by a narrow way. The entrance to the park is in Tshivanga on the eastern side. Of 75,000 ha of eastern sector is complete montane. The massif is a part of the Mitumba mountain range, the west mountains of the big break valley. Two main points, mounting you Kahuzi (3,308 m) and mounting you that Biéga (2,790 m) are gone out volcanoes, and the massive data of the late Tertiären or early four group.

The lowland sector in the Zairean main washing bowl covers the divides of the tributary of the Lukas and the Lugulu rivers. These both drainpipes in flussLualaba. The lengthening lies less than 1,500 ms separated from isolated points like rack Kamani (1,700 m), and exists of mountains cut by deep valleys. The wave terrain in the west forms a strap between two zones. The west zone becomes by the equatorial rain forest, with the transitional wood between 1,200 ms and 1,500 ms wooded. In the east zone six different primary vegetation types have become noteworthy: Mountain rain forest, height rain forest, marsh wood, bamboo wood, subalpine heather and marsh and peat marsh. The park was founded to protect 200-300 east lowlands the gorilla (from gray) which seems primarily in the woods in 2,100-2,400 ms, but also in the lower rain forest. The 'mosaic' from biotypes does the park an excellent gorilla's habitat. Other primates close east chimpanzees, and numerousCercopithecinae and Colobinae one. Other mammals enclose elephants, forest pig and many antelopes and duiker. Avifauna encloses sunbird of the endemic skirt fur trader, broadbill from gray, the warbler of gray and crimsonwing from Shelley. Endemic mammalian kinds enclose gigantic gennet, water civet, the horseshoe bat of Maclaud, Ruwenzori of the smallest viper-quarrel devils, from owl seen monkey, eastern needle klauengalago, the tree squirrel of Thomas and the shrub squirrel of Alexander.

15 villages of variable cultivators were laid in the east sectors of the park when it was created and continue to be taken. The park has lain in one of the most close populated areas of the land. About 90 of the population of Kivu are rural, from the agriculture primarily dependent. Seven separate family groups living around the park including the Pygmy, the Barega and the Bashi people. Traditional living is based on the variable agriculture and the existence hunt.

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Virunga National Park in Congo

Virunga National Park - Congo

Virunga national park (the covering of an area of 790,000 ha) encloses an excellent dissimilarity of habitats, in the interval of marshes and steppes to the snowy fields of Rwenzori in a height of more than 5,000 ms, and from lava levels to the savannahas on the slope of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, about 20,000 Nile horses living in the rivers and birds of Siberia spend the winter there.

Wonderful Universal Importance

National park of Virunga is unique with his active chain of volcanoes and rich dissimilarity of habitats which excel those any other African park. His row contains a coalescence of steppes, savanna and levels, marshland, low height and afro-montane forest straps to the unique Afro-Alpine vegetation and lasting glaciers and snow on Monts Rwenzori whose points culminate in 5000-m height. The property encloses the sensational massifs of Rwenzori and Virunga to mountains which contain two most active volcanoes of Africa. The wide dissimilarity of habitats generates unusual biodiversity, in particular endemic kinds and rare and in general threatened kinds like the mountain gorilla.

Wide Report

The park lies in the north-east of the democratic republic of Congo, on the border with Uganda and Rwanda, and closes a part of the lake Edward (Idi Amin), the Semliki river valley, parts of the Rwindi, Ishasha and Rutshuru valleys in the south of the lake, the Virunga area within the democratic republic of Congo, and the part of the Rwenzori row one. Lake Edward belongs to the river system of the Nile and lake Kivu to the washing bowl-river system of Congo. Qualities enclose hot springs in the Rwindi levels, and the Virunga massive volcanoes, how Nyamulagira (3,068 m) and Nyiragongo (3,470 m), are still active. The areas of the lowest and highest precipitation in the democratic republic of Congo are in the Virunga national park. The substantial Altitudinal row runs out to marked climatic variations which concern the whole biological and geographic dissimilarity by habitats. Habitat types include lakes in different heights, marshy deltas and peat, savanna and lava levels, low height equatorial wood gets stuck, height glacier, and snowy fields (have the Rwenzori points lasting snowy lid). Laid on the border between several Biogeographic zones the park protects tropical rain forest as well as east steppe-kinds, and his row of heights contributes to the habitat variety. The dissimilarity encloses: Bamboo and Hagenia wood on the mountains; equatorial wood along the Semiliki; wooded savanna of the Rwindi; steppes; different low savanna; marshes and transitional habitats; dry up thicken wood; Neoboutonia macrocup wood at the lava levels; wet thick wood; Alpine woods; and scanty vegetation more than 4,300 ms of contained primarily lichens and spermatophyta have been found althoughGraminae, in more than 5,000 ms growing.

Some of the biggest wild animal concentrations in Africa seem along the rivers of the park. Mammals in the savanna of the Rwindi of area enclose: Elephant, Nile horse, buffalo, numerous antelope including kob, defassa waterbuck and topi, wart pig, lion and different monkeys. A big number of pelicans seems on deep Rutshuru. In the Semiliki valley and on the slope of the Virunga of mountains are gorilla, chimpanzee and okapi. In the extreme north are forest pig and bongo. Birds enclose francolin from Nahan, forest reason-throttle, shoebill and probably papyrus yellow warbler.

Historical Description

Founded in 1925 as a park of Albert National (809,000 ha); revised by the order No 69-041 from the 22nd August as a Virunga national park. Called as a world heritage page 1979.

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Sangha Trinational in Congo

Sangha Trinational - Congo

Located in the North-Western Congo basin, where Central African Republic, Cameroon and Congo meet, the site includes three continuous nature parks in total about 750,000 ha. Much of the site is not affected by human activity and features a wide range of humid tropical forest ecosystems with rich flora and fauna, including Nile crocodiles and goliath tigerfish, a large predator. Herbaceous species and above support forest Sangha is where significant populations of endangered chimpanzee, forest elephants and endangered western lowland gorilla. Of the site environment, the continuation of the ecological and evolutionary processes on a large scale and high biodiversity, including many endangered species preserved.

Wonderful Universal Importance

Sangha (TNS) is a cross-border trinational conservation complex in the North-Western Congo basin where Cameroon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo meet. TNS includes three continuous nature parks in total a legally defined area of 746,309 hectares. These are the Lobéké Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in Cameroon, National Park in the Central African Republic and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. Dzanga-Ndoki National Park consists of two different units. The parks are embedded in a much larger forest landscape, sometimes referred to as the TNS landscape. A buffer zone of 1, 787, 950 hectares was set up in recognition of the importance of the wider landscape and its inhabitants for the future of the property. The Dzanga-Sanga Forest Reserve buffer zone handheld computers in the Central African Republic, which the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park connects two units.

Natural values and features include the ongoing ecological and evolutionary processes in a mostly intact forest landscape on a very large scale. Numerous and diverse habitats such as tropical forests comprises about 170–180 species of deciduous and evergreen species, a wide variety of wetland types, including swamp forests and periodically flooded forests and many types of forest conservation places of great importance continue to be connected to a landscape level. This mosaic of ecosystems and viable populations of full houses faunal floral assemblages, including top predators and rare and endangered species, such as gorillas, chimpanzees and Forest elephants, several kinds of antelope, such as the Bongo and the characteristic Sitatungas.

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