Sangha Trinational (TNS) is a transboundary conservation complex in the North-western Congo Basin where Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo meet.

The property encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling a legally defined area of 746,309 hectares. These are Lobéké National Park in Cameroon, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, with Dzanga-Ndoki National Park comprising of two distinct units.

The parks are embedded in a much larger forest landscape, sometimes referred to as the TNS Landscape.

The property represents a wide spectrum of the species-rich humid tropical forests in Central Africa’s Congo Basin, and provides protection for a range of endangered species.

TNS protects a large number of tree species, which are heavily commercially exploited elsewhere, such as the critically endangered Mukulungu.

In addition to viable populations of forest elephants, significant populations of the critically endangered Western Lowland gorilla and the endangered chimpanzee occur both in and around the property, together with several endangered antelope species, such as the sitatunga and the emblematic bongo.

Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012, the entire property is surrounded by a large buffer zone in all three countries which responds to the intricate ecological linkages between the property and its surroundings.

Source: Azerbaijan State News Agency