World Heritage Sites Home to the Great Apes Great apes occur in 16 World Heritage Sites in 11 countries across Africa and Southeast Asia. Chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans are representative of the World Heritage Convention’s commitment to protecting “the most

important and signi cant natural habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value.”

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All great ape species have been classi ed as Endangered or Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List

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Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DR Congo Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon Mount Nimba Nature Reserve, Grauer’s gorillas & Eastern chimpanzees Western Lowland gorillas & Western chimpanzees Côte d’Ivoire & Guinea Western chimpanzees Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda Virunga National Park, DR Congo Eastern chimpanzees Mountain gorillas & Eastern chimpanzees Niokolo-Koba National Park, Comoe National Park, Côte d’Ivoire Senegal Salonga National Park, DR Congo Western chimpanzees Western chimpanzees Bonobos Okapi Wildlife Reserve, DR Congo Bwindi Impenetrable National Eastern chimpanzees Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire Park, Uganda Western chimpanzees Eastern chimpanzees & Mountain Lopé-Okanda Ecosystem, Gabon gorillas Western Lowland gorillas & Eastern chimpanzees Sangha Trinational, Congo, Cameroon, & Central African Republic Garamba National Park, DR Congo Western Lowland gorillas & Western chimpanzees Eastern chimpanzees

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia Sumatran orangutans Many World Heritage Sites are Kinabalu National Park, threatened by natural resource Malaysia Bornean orangutans extraction

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H O E M R I E T IN AG O Designed by Laura Darby (www.lauradarby.com) E • PATRIM whc.unesco.org un-grasp.org United Nations World GREAT APES SURVIVAL Watercolors by Charity Oetgen (www.artbycharity.com) Educational, Scientific and Heritage P A R TNERSHIP Cultural Organization Centre