Salonga National Park
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| Country | Zaire |
| Coordinates | 2°0′″S, 21°00′″E |
| Total area | 36,000 km² |
| Established | 1970 |
| Governing body | l'Institut Zaïroise pour la Conservation de la Nature |
Located in the Zaire River basin, Salonga National Park is the largest tropical rainforest reserve on the African continent. Among its inhabitants are bonobo chimps, Salonga monkeys, Tshuapa red colobus, Zaire peacocks, forest elephants, and African slender-snouted crocodiles. UNESCO designated it as a World Heritage Site in 1984. Poaching and illegal logging threaten the park's animal population, but little if anything is done by the national government to discourage this.
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République du Zaïre |
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