The World Heritage Committee(WHC) has made a great and important achievement making the greens happy and feel proud. Salonga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been removed from UNESCO’s list of threatened sites as there are a lot of improvements in its conservation,
According to the report of ‘News Week’ It is Africa’s largest tropical rainforest reserve and was marked as a World Heritage site in the year 1984 and in a list of World Heritage in Danger sites in 1999. This was made because of the huge poaching activities, loss of and water pollution in this region.
WHC claimed that the park’s management has been strengthened over the years, notably in terms of anti-poaching measures. Located at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, This park is the largest protected area of dense rainforest in Africa.
This park is so much isolated that the only way to go there is through water or air transport. The park is spread over nearly 13,900 square miles. This conservative achievement plays an important role in climate regulation.
It is home to many vulnerable or endangered species, including bonobo monkeys, the bush elephant, and the Congo peacock. The World Wildlife Federation said that the forest is home to 51 species of mammal, as well as 129 fish species and 223 bird species.
