Lomami

Lomami National Park, formally established in 2016, is one of the world's newest national parks and protects a vast tract of primary lowland rainforest in the Tshopo and Maniema provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, straddling the Lomami River. Covering approximately 8,880 square kilometres of core zone (with an even larger buffer zone), the park was established following a scientific expedition in 2007 that discovered a new species of monkey—the lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis)—in the area, one of the first new primate species described in Africa in 28 years. The park protects some of the most intact and least-surveyed primary forest remaining in the Congo basin.