Garamba National Park

加兰巴国家公园

🇮🇹 Democratic Republic of the Congo📅 1980 Inscribed

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The park's immense savannahs, grasslands and woodlands, interspersed with gallery forests along the river banks and the swampy depressions, are home to four large mammals: the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus and above all the white rhinoceros. Though much larger than the black rhino, it is harmless; only some 30 individuals remain.

Insight I

One of the oldest national parks in Africa, located in the transition zone between savannas and tropical forests, supporting exceptional biodiversity due to high vegetation productivity

Hosted the last known wild population of the northern white rhinoceros (now functionally extinct, with only two females left worldwide)

Insight II

Home to four of the world’s largest land mammals: elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, and hippopotamus

Insight III

Long listed as endangered due to severe poaching, with many park rangers and military personnel having lost their lives protecting it