Garamba

Garamba National Park, established in 1938 and one of Africa's oldest national parks, is situated in the Haut-Uele Province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo near the borders with South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Covering approximately 4,920 square kilometres, Garamba protects a vast mosaic of savanna grasslands, gallery forests along the rivers, and wooded hills that once sheltered one of Africa's most diverse large-mammal assemblages. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, designated in 1980, and is critically important for the conservation of the northern white rhinoceros—a species now functionally extinct in the wild following the death of the last confirmed wild individuals in Garamba in the 1990s and early 2000s.