The Congolian rainforests are a broad belt of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests which extend across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa.
Aerial view of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Congolian rainforest ecoregions: 2. Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, 6. Central Congolian lowland forests 7. Eastern Congolian swamp forests, 8. Western Congolian swamp forests, 9. Northeastern Congolian lowland forests, 15. Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
A Sapele tree in the Republic of the Congo
Bonobos live south of the Congo River
The western lowland gorilla is one of two critically endangered subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane, primary and secondary forest and lowland swampland in central Africa in Angola,
Congolian rainforests
…estimated that the region contains more than a quarter of the world's plant species and is home to one of the world's most threatened primate species, the western lowland gorilla. There are also a number of other species of primates, including the chimpanzee, black colobus monkey, red colobus monkey, and olive baboon. The central…
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Close-up of male silverback's head at the Leipzig Zoo in Leipzig city, Germany