Wildlife

Central Africa’s forests are home to such diverse wildlife as forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, forest buffaloes, sitatunga and bongo antelopes, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, numerous monkey species, leopards, and a long list of endemic birds, including the African grey parrot. Nowhere else in Central Africa is there such a high probability of seeing all this wildlife in one place.

Wildlife in the clearings or bais

In Central African forests, between 75 and 100 elephants provide an incredible spectacle by gathering daily to mine for minerals at a swampy clearing.

Sixteen gorilla families along with ten solitary silverbacks, amounting to some 150 animals, may come to feed on nutritious plants at another clearing.

Bongo antelopes can gather at these clearings during the dry season, providing perhaps the rarest and most exciting sighting of all.

Lowland gorilla silverbacks

And then there are Central Africa’s western lowland gorilla silverbacks Kingo, Buka and Makumba, success stories of science’s habituation efforts. To meet them and their families is to understand that you are now inextricably wrapped up in their fate. A sustainable tourism program is the only answer to ensuring their survival.