Salonga

Salonga National Park, established in 1970 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, is the largest tropical rainforest national park in Africa and the second largest tropical national park in the world, covering approximately 36,000 square kilometres in the heart of the Congo basin in Mai-Ndombe and Sankuru provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The park consists of two separate blocks—north and south—connected by a wildlife corridor, and is accessible only by river or small aircraft, lying deep within the world's second-largest tropical rainforest. Salonga is the primary stronghold for the bonobo (Pan paniscus), the most endangered of the four great apes and the only one found exclusively in the DRC.