Mongabay

DRC’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve gets new management partner in WCS

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will now be run under a new management partnership agreement between the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the DRC ...
UNESCO

Okapi Wildlife Reserve

2025 47COM 7A.8 - General Decision on the World Heritage properties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2025 47COM 7A.11 - Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 2025 47COM 8C.1 ...
Reuters

Congo seizes gold worth $1.9 million in Okapi wildlife reserve

Congolese authorities seize 31kg of gold in Ituri province Gold mined illegally in Okapi wildlife reserve Uganda is foremost destination for gold smuggled from Ituri - UN KINSHASA, June 22 (Reuters) - ...
The Independent

Nature Studies: Animals are also victims of war - and in Congo, that means the beautiful okapi

For ages, it was just a myth; soon, it may be just a memory. The okapi, the "forest giraffe" from the Congo - that gentle, fascinating beast known to Western science only since 1901 - is now ...
Mongabay

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

The discovery of the okapi shocked the world in 1901. African explorer, Henry Stanley, called it “donkey-like,” while others thought it a new species of zebra, given the stripes. However, this ...