The Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a protected area in the Ituri Forest, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1992 to protect the okapi, a rare forest relative of the giraffe that lives only in this country, and covers about a fifth of the Ituri Forest. The reserve also shelters chimpanzees, forest elephants and many birds and plants, and is home to the Mbuti and Efe peoples, forest hunter-gatherers. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, and added to the list of sites in danger in 1997 because of conflicts in the region. Armed groups, poaching and illegal mining continue to threaten it.
Before and after
- 1992Founding of Deutsche Börse
- 1992Višegrad massacres
- 1992Establishment of Pamir National Park
- 1992Founding of International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- 1992Construction of Okapi Wildlife Reserve
- 1992Founding of National Stock Exchange of India
- 1992The first exoplanets are found around a pulsar
- from 11 January 1992 to 8 February 2002Algerian Civil War
- 22 January 1992Discovery of PSR B1257+12 c
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