Sangha Trinational (TNS)

Sangha Trinational (TNS) is a transboundary conservation landscape in the north-western Congo Basin where Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo meet. TNS includes three contiguous national parks totaling around 750,000 hectares (ha). Much of the landscape is unaffected by human activity and features a wide range of humid tropical forest ecosystems with rich flora and fauna, including Nile crocodiles and goliath tigerfish, a large predator. Forest clearings support herbaceous species. Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants, the critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzees. It is rich in biodiversity. In 2012, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named Dzanga-Sangha and the surrounding TNS area a World Heritage site, noting its role in “the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a huge scale.”

Greater Virunga Landscapes (GVL)

This rich landscape in Central Africa, is home to the world’s last two remaining populations of mountain gorillas. This is one of the most biologically diverse parts of the planet. Its combination of ancient tropical forests, ice capped mountains, active volcanoes, savannah, swamps, and wetlands is home to elephants, hippos, unique birds, and rare plants. But Virunga-Bwindi’s most famous residents are its critically endangered mountain gorillas.  Found at the point where East Africa meets Central Africa, the Greater Virunga Landscape is a spectacular mosaic of wildly diverse landscapes from steamy papyrus swamps to permanent glaciers and from savannahs and forests to active volcanoes. The Virunga-Bwindi landscape is spread across the borders of three countries in central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Rwanda. 

Running down the borders of three countries, the VirungaBwindi landscapes range from dense, lush forests to dry savannahs, volcanic lava plains and snow-capped mountains. Virunga-Bwindi is the only place in the world where you’ll find the critically endangered mountain gorilla – divided into groups almost equally between the Virunga mountains and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

WWF successfully campaigned to protect Virunga National Park from the threat of oil exploration. More than 765,000 people from around the world signed our petition to protect the park from oil exploration

Southern Kenya Northern Tanzania (SOKNOT)

SOKNOT is a WWF transboundary conservation programme along the Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania (SOKNOT) landscape which spans 134,000 km². The programme involves an integrated landscape approach which seeks to contribute to the Kenya and Tanzania government efforts to implement their respective wildlife corridor and dispersal area strategies while ensuring that the livelihoods and well-being of people living within those wildlife areas are enhanced. The SOKNOT transboundary conservation area broadly covers the following three ecosystems: Mara-Serengeti; Amboseli-West Kilimanjaro and Tsavo-Mkomazi and the areas that connect them.