Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve

The Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve is a protected area in southwestern Central African Republic, covering 6,865.54 km2 (2, 650.80 sq mi) of tropical rainforest within the Congo Basin. Established in 1990, it surrounds Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, together forming the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas. The reserve is one of the three protected areas that form the Sangha Trinational, a transboundary conservation landscape shared by the Central African Republic, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo. Since 2012, the Sangha Trinational has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its extensive intact forests and exceptional biodiversity. Dzanga-Sangha is internationally known for its populations of African forest elephants and western lowland gorillas. It includes Dzanga Bai, one of the best-known forest clearings in Central Africa for observing forest elephants and other wildlife, as well as the Bai Hokou research and gorilla habituation site. The reserve is also home to indigenous Aka communities, who have traditionally depended on the surrounding rainforest.

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