Few readers know it: Cameroon counts not one but two natural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The first, the Dja Faunal Reserve in the south, has protected one of Central Africa's best-preserved rainforests since 1987, across more than 5,260 square kilometres.
The second is more recent: Lobéké National Park, in the country's southeast, joined the list in 2012 as part of a transboundary complex called the Sangha Trinational. Together with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in Congo and Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic, it forms one of the largest continuous blocks of Congo Basin rainforest — home to forest elephants and western lowland gorillas.
Sources: UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Wikipedia (Sangha Trinational).
