🇨🇬Republic of the Congo

Twenty thousand people live inside this flooded forest in the Republic of Congo, and the reserve they co-manage sits on more peat than any other protected area in Central Africa.

Rangers in a 4,334 km² Congo Basin rainforest park recorded zero detected elephant poaching in 2023 for the first time in its 30-year history.

Orphaned gorillas raised by The Aspinall Foundation are rewilded into the Republic of Congo's 173,000-hectare Lésio-Louna Reserve, once emptied by hunting.