Great Apes in UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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 significant natural habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value!." BONOBO All great ape species have been classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List KENDANGERED> CRITICALLY ENDANGERED EN CR CHIMPANZEE GORILLA Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DR Congo Grauer's gorillas & Eastem chimpanzees Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon Western Lowland gorillas & Westen chimpanzees Mount Nimba Nature Reserve, Côte d'Ivoire & Guinea Western chimpanzees Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda Eastem chimpanzees Virunga National Park, DR Congo Mountain gorillas & Eastern chimpanzees Niokolo-Koba National Park, Comoe National Park, Côte d'lvoire Western chimpanzees Salonga National Park, DR Congo Bonobos Senegal Western chimpanzees Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda Eastern chimpanzees & Mountain gorillas Garamba National Park, DR Congo Okapi Wildlife Reserve, DR Congo Eastem chimpanzees Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire Western chimpanzees Lopé-Okanda Ecosystem, Gabon Western Lowland aorillas & Eastern chimpanzees Sangha Trinational, Congo, Cameroon, & Central African Republic Western Lowland gorillas & Westem chimpanzees Eastern chimpanzees Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia Sumatran orangutans Many World Heritage Sites are threatened by natural resource Kinabalu National Park, Malaysia Bomean orangutans extraction ORANGUTAN Wth the support of Designed by Laura Darby (www.lauradarby.com) Watercolors by Charity Oetgen (www.artbycharity.com) ПИН GRASP whc.unesco.org UNEP un-grasp.org United Nations. World Educational, Scientific and. Heritage Cutura Organization. Centre VStI GREAT APESSURVIVAL ARTNERSHIP