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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve (French: Réserve de faune à okapis) is a wildlife reserve in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. [3] At approximately 14,000 km 2, it covers approximately one-fifth of the area of the forest.
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve – an area 13,700 square kilometers, about one-fifth of the Ituri Forest – was created with the help of the Okapi Wildlife Project in 1992. The project continues to support the reserve by training and equipping wildlife guards and by providing assistance to improve the lives of neighboring communities. [1]
Okapi Wildlife Reserve (13726 km 2) Salonga National Park (36,000 km 2) Virunga National Park (7900 km 2) Garamba National Park (4920 km 2)
16 mammals are endemic to the ecoregion, including the okapi (Okapia johnstoni), giant genet (Genetta victoriae), aquatic genet (Genetta piscivora), lesser forest shrew (Sylvisorex oriundus), African foggy shrew (Crocidura caliginea), fuscous shrew (Crocidura polia), owl-faced monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni), and L'Hoest's monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti).
Okapi Wildlife Reserve† Haut-Uele, Ituri: 1997 718; x (natural) The wildlife reserve is located in the Ituri Rainforest. As a Pleistocene refugium, the forest contains dense evergreen and semi-evergreen forests dominated by Mbau trees (Gilbertiodendron dewevrei).
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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve and Maiko National Park support significant populations of the okapi, though a steady decline in numbers has occurred due to several threats. Other areas of occurrence are the Rubi Tele Hunting Reserve ,the Abumombanzi Reserve,the Sankuru Nature Reserve , the Lomami National Park .
Many of these wildlife species are threatened animals such as large lowland gorillas and chimpanzees. [ 2 ] Five of the country's national parks are listed as World Heritage Sites : the Garumba , Kahuzi-Biega , Salonga and Virunga National Parks , and Okapi Wildlife Reserve .