Virunga National Park

 Virunga National Park was one of the first protected areas in Africa

Virunga National Park

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Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, some 20,000 hippopotamuses live in the rivers and birds from Siberia spend the winter there. - in: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/63

Garamba National Park

This park is home to four large mammals: the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus and above all the white rhinoceros

Rhinoceros at Garamba National Park

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Garamba National Park, located in Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, was established in 1938. One of Africa's oldest National parks, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. Garamba is (or at least was) the home to the world's last known wild population of Northern White Rhinoceros. Due to poaching of the rhinos within the park, it was added to the list of World Heritage in Danger in 1996. The park is also well known for its African elephant domestication programme started in the 1960s, which managed to train tourist-rideable animals. The park is currently managed by African Parks Network, a non-profit conservation organisation. - in: Wikipedia