North Congolian Lowland Forests bioregion
The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The protection goal is the combined Global Safety Net (GSN1) areas for the component ecoregions. The protection level indicates the percentage of the GSN goal that is currently protected on a scale of 0-10. N/A means data is not available at this time.
The North Congolian Lowland bioregion in the Equatorial Afrotropics subrealm includes the densely forested lowland areas above the Congo River, bounded to the east by the Albertine Rift. It is divided into western and eastern halves and comprises two major ecoregions—Northeast Congolian Lowland Forests (24), Northwest Congolian Lowland Forests (26)—totaling 95 million hectares.
The bioregion contains vast expanses of intact rainforest and forms a part of one of the world’s last remaining tropical forest wildernesses, storing an estimated 22 billion tonnes of carbon. These forests are amongst the richest in Africa for primates, harboring the largest population of lowland gorillas, and possibly chimpanzees, in the world.
The North Congolian Lowland Forests bioregion is part of the Equatorial Afrotropics subrealm and is made up of two ecoregions: Northwest Congolian Lowland Forests [1], Northeast Congolian lowland forests [2].
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