Situated in the north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo meet, the site encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling around 750,000 ha. Much of the site is unaffected 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. Forest clearings support herbaceous species and Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants, critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzee. The site’s environment has preserved the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a huge scale and great biodiversity, including many endangered animal species.[3]
This property is an excellent example, at an exceptionally large-scale, of the process of post-glacial forest recolonization of savanna ecosystems. It is therefore ecologically significant as a convergence point of multiple ecosystem types (Congolese Forest, Lower Guinean Forest and Savanna). The broad range of age classifications across the forest succession spectrum contributes to the park’s highly distinct ecology, incorporating a broad range of remarkable ecological processes. It is one of the most important strongholds for forest elephants in Central Africa, and is recognized as the park with the richest primate diversity in the region.[4]
^"Sangha Trinational". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-20. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO) license.
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^"Loango ancient slavery harbour". UNESCO World Heritage Centre (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
^"Mbé Royal Domain". UNESCO World Heritage Centre (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
^"Conkouati-Douli National Park". UNESCO World Heritage Centre (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
January 01, 1970
list, world, heritage, sites, congo, united, nations, educational, scientific, cultural, organization, unesco, world, heritage, sites, places, importance, cultural, natural, heritage, described, unesco, world, heritage, convention, established, 1972, republic,. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention established in 1972 1 Republic of the Congo accepted the convention making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list As of 2023 Republic of the Congo has two World Heritage Sites one of them Sangha Trinational it s shared with the neighbouring countries of Cameroon and CAR 2 Contents 1 Location of sites 2 List of sites 3 Tentative List 4 ReferencesLocation of sites edit nbsp nbsp Sangha Trinational nbsp Forest Massif of Odzala Kokouaclass notpageimage Location of World Heritage Sites in nbsp Republic of the CongoList of sites edit Transnational site Name Image Location Criteria Year Description Sangha Trinational nbsp Sangha Department Likouala Department 2 28 00 N 16 27 00 E 2 466667 N 16 45 E 2 466667 16 45 Sangha Trinational Natural ix x 2012 Situated in the north western Congo Basin where Cameroon Central African Republic and Congo meet the site encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling around 750 000 ha Much of the site is unaffected 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 Forest clearings support herbaceous species and Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants critically endangered western lowland gorilla and endangered chimpanzee The site s environment has preserved the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a huge scale and great biodiversity including many endangered animal species 3 Forest Massif of Odzala Kokoua nbsp Cuvette Ouest Department 0 48 N 14 54 E 0 8 N 14 9 E 0 8 14 9 Forest Massif of Odzala Kokoua Natural ix x 2023 This property is an excellent example at an exceptionally large scale of the process of post glacial forest recolonization of savanna ecosystems It is therefore ecologically significant as a convergence point of multiple ecosystem types Congolese Forest Lower Guinean Forest and Savanna The broad range of age classifications across the forest succession spectrum contributes to the park s highly distinct ecology incorporating a broad range of remarkable ecological processes It is one of the most important strongholds for forest elephants in Central Africa and is recognized as the park with the richest primate diversity in the region 4 Tentative List editSite Image Location Criteria Areaha acre Year of submission Description Loango ancient slavery harbour nbsp Kouilou Department 4 39 22 S 11 48 41 E 4 656111 S 11 811389 E 4 656111 11 811389 Loango ancient slavery harbour Cultural vi 2008 5 Mbe Royal Domain Pool Department 3 18 14 S 15 53 51 E 3 3038 S 15 8975 E 3 3038 15 8975 Mbe Royal Domain Cultural v vi 2008 6 Conkouati Douli National Park nbsp Kouilou Department 3 54 18 S 11 28 12 E 3 905 S 11 47 E 3 905 11 47 Conkouati Douli National Park Natural ix x 2008 7 References edit The World Heritage Convention UNESCO Retrieved December 11 2023 Congo UNESCO Retrieved November 20 2023 Sangha Trinational UNESCO World Heritage Centre Retrieved 2023 11 20 nbsp Text was copied from this source which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 IGO CC BY 3 0 IGO license Forest Massif of Odzala Kokoua UNESCO World Heritage Centre Retrieved 2023 11 20 nbsp Text was copied from this source which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 IGO CC BY 3 0 IGO license Loango ancient slavery harbour UNESCO World Heritage Centre in French Retrieved 2023 11 20 Mbe Royal Domain UNESCO World Heritage Centre in French Retrieved 2023 11 20 Conkouati Douli National Park UNESCO World Heritage Centre in French Retrieved 2023 11 20 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of World Heritage Sites in Congo amp oldid 1192998118, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
