Kahuzi-Biega

Kahuzi-Biega National Park, established in 1970 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980, protects a vast area of tropical montane and lowland rainforest in South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the western edge of the Albertine Rift. Covering approximately 6,000 square kilometres across two distinct sectors—the highland sector around Mount Kahuzi (3,308 m) and Mount Biega (2,790 m) and the lowland Itebero sector connected by a wildlife corridor—the park is most famous for sheltering the world's largest remaining population of the critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla (Grauer's gorilla, Gorilla beringei graueri). The park's extraordinary biodiversity and towering ancient forests represent one of the planet's most important conservation areas.