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WWF projects in the Congo River Basin forests

Region-wide

African/Forest elephant hybrid (Loxodonta africana/a. cyclotis) on their trail, Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic.

Elephant conservation in Africa

African elephants are the world’s largest terrestrial mammals. Although elephant numbers have recovered from record lows in the 1980s – today there ar...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jul 2000

Signboard in Gamba with WWF name, signaling the beginning of a protected area where there are elephants. Gabon.

Cross-border conservation in Gabon and Congo

In an effort to improve cross-border management of protected areas of the Congo Basin, Gabon and The Republic of Congo are working together in the Gam...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Jul 2006

Cameroon

Strengthening Community-Based Forest Enterprises in Ecoregions of Latin America, Asia and Africa

The support and involvement of local communities can reap real and long term benefits for WWF’s conservation work. This project addresses the devel...

Modified: Mar 2010 - Started: Jan 2007

WWF African Bushmeat Programme

The WWF Africa and Madagascar Programme has developed a bushmeat programme to implement projects that contribute to the protection of species threaten...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Apr 2002

African/Forest elephant hybrid (Loxodonta africana/a. cyclotis) on their trail, Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic.

Elephant conservation in Africa

African elephants are the world’s largest terrestrial mammals. Although elephant numbers have recovered from record lows in the 1980s – today there ar...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jul 2000

Central African Republic (CAR)

Sustainable Management and Credible Certification Process in the Congo Basin

The sustainable management of the forest ecosystems has been for a few decades in the centre of the concerns of the international community who did no...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jul 2007

Renovation of the Dzanga-Sangha Tourism Interpretation Centre

The Dzanga-Sangha tourism interpretation centre is located in the Dzanga-Sangha complex of protected areas in the Central African Republic. The comple...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Mar 2008

Congo-Brazzaville

African/Forest elephant hybrid (Loxodonta africana/a. cyclotis) on their trail, Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic.

Elephant conservation in Africa

African elephants are the world’s largest terrestrial mammals. Although elephant numbers have recovered from record lows in the 1980s – today there ar...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jul 2000

Signboard in Gamba with WWF name, signaling the beginning of a protected area where there are elephants. Gabon.

Cross-border conservation in Gabon and Congo

In an effort to improve cross-border management of protected areas of the Congo Basin, Gabon and The Republic of Congo are working together in the Gam...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Jul 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Miombo woodland. Miombo plant communities are dominated by trees belonging to the family Caesalpiniaceae, and characterized by Brachystegia and Julbernardia species. North Eastern Zambia.

Conserving the woodlands of central and southern Africa

Covering much of central and southern Africa, the Miombo ecoregion is an area of 3.6 million km2 ranging across parts of Angola, Botswana, the Democra...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jan 2005

An adult male mountain gorilla in the Virunga Mountains.

International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP)

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is threatened by human activities such as poaching, civil war and habitat destruction. The ...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Nov 1977

Participatory Gazettement and Forest Management of the Itombwe Massif

This project aims to establish Itombwe in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as a protected area through a forest gazettement process. This will ...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jan 2007

Gabon

Tropical rain forest. Vegetation on riverbank - moist forest of the Western Congo Basin at the edge of Minkebe Reserve. Gabon.

Minkebe Forest, Gabon

Situated in the northeast corner of Gabon, the Minkebe Forest is considered one the most biologically rich rainforests in Africa. It is home to one of...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Feb 1989

Person in charge of the WWF educational programme with students. Gamba Nature Reserve, Gabon.

On the ground in Gabon’s Gamba protected area

Along Gabon’s southwestern coast lies the Gamba complex of protected areas. The habitat is a mix of dense tropical rainforests, wide open savannahs, s...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Aug 1990