Yangambi

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, located in Tshopo Province in the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of Africa's most significant UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves, encompassing a vast area of primary lowland Congolian rainforest along the Congo River approximately 100 kilometres upstream of Kisangani. Covering approximately 235,000 hectares, the reserve is centred on the Yangambi Research Station—the most important tropical forest research station in Africa—which was established by the Belgian colonial administration in 1933 and has maintained continuous biological and agricultural research for over 90 years. The reserve protects primary forest, secondary forest at various stages of regeneration, and the remarkable scientific infrastructure of the research station.