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Wikidata facts
- Located in
- Ituri Province
- Area
- 1372625
- Official website
- www.okapiconservation.org
- Image
- Epulu Okapi Reserve.jpg
- Significant event
- list of World Heritage in Danger
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- Commons category
- Okapi Fauna Reserve
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- inception
- 1992-00-00
- significant place
- Isiro
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- Réserve de faune à okapis
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Encyclopedic overview
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve (French: Réserve de faune à okapis) is a wildlife reserve in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. At approximately 14,000 km, it covers approximately one-fifth of the area of the forest. In 1996, the Okapi Wildlife Reserve was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to its large population of endangered okapis and its high overall biodiversity. The reserve is currently occupied and seriously threatened by the presence of Islamist terrorists from the Allied Democratic Forces who in 2025 killed more than 1700 civilians in the wider region of northeast Congo.
Ecology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okapi Wildlife Reserve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.