Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 

The unique okapi (looks a bit like a zebra, but related to the giraffe) lives only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve, occupying about 1/5 of the Ituri forest in the country's NE, was founded by the Okapi Conservation Project in 1987. Threatened primates and birds and about 1/6 of the world's wild okapi live there, as do traditional nomadic pygmy hunters.

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