The Independent

The Okapi, Congo’s hidden ‘forest jewel’, now protected thanks to conservation milestone

The world’s only living relative of the giraffe has received its strongest global protection yet. Conservationists say the ...
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 ...
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 ...