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Watch the spectacular wildlife at Okapi Wildlife Reserve.

Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a protected area in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo, in the Ituri Rainforest.
‘Okapi Wildlife Reserve’ is named after its primary protected animal, the okapi, with roughly 5000 located in the park, a sixth of the estimated total population.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve covers an area of 13,726 square kilometres (5,300 square miles).
Over 100 species of mammal are found in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, including, but not limited to, leopards, antelope, elephants, crocodiles, okapis, primates, buffalo; as well as more than 370 bird species.
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention declared Okapi Wildlife Reserve a World Heritage Site in 1996.

Okapi Wildlife Reserve is the home to three rivers, the Epulu, Ituri and Nepoko Rivers; Mbiya Mountain; as well as numerous deposits of various rocks and minerals including gneiss, mica and granite.
The Okapi Conservation Project supports and partners with the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, and helped to establish the reserve in 1992.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve is the home of the Epulu Conservation and Research Center, established in 1928, where the Okapi Conservation Project does its work; and the function of the centre is to manage the okapi breeding program, conservation and research, and occasionally send small quantities of okapi to zoos.
Approximately 80% of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve can be used for hunting by the thousands of native people living there, for the purpose of providing food to the local communities and villages, as long as traditional techniques are used; but despite this, poaching, deforestation, gold mining and political instability all continue to endanger the reserve.
The Epulu Conservation and Research Center and the Okapi Conservation Project in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve suffered a major setback in 2012, when it was directly attacked by a group of rebels and poachers, which resulted in blazed buildings, a number of human fatalities, and death of all fourteen okapi in the breeding program.

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Kilimanjaro National Park is located in Tanzania, Africa, near the equator.
Kilimanjaro National Park contains the famous volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the world’s largest volcanos which is also the tallest African mountain.
Kilimanjaro National Park covers an area of over 750 square km (290 square miles).
In 1910, Kilimanjaro National Park was declared a game reserve by the German and in 1921, the park was declared a forest reserve.
Many animals are found in the vicinity of Kilimanjaro National Park , and the Kilimanjaro tree hyrax (a small nocturnal mammal) and Abott’s duiker (small antelope) are exclusive to the park’s region.

Part of the setting of the popular children’s film, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”, is of Kilimanjaro National Park.
Kilimanjaro National Park was opened to the public in 1973 and declared a World Heritage site in 1987.
Approximately 52,000 people visit Kilimanjaro National Park every year.
In Kilimanjaro National Park there is the opportunity to view wildlife, hike or bush walk, and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and to fish for trout in the park.
The African Chagga people live in Kilimanjaro National Park.

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