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HERITAGE RECORD · 1697

Nyungwe National Park

纽恩威国家公园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

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World Heritage record

This serial property represents an important area for rainforest conservation in Central Africa. The property is home to intact forests and peat bogs, moors, thickets and grasslands, providing habitats to a highly diverse flora and fauna. The Park also contains the most significant natural habitats for a number of species found nowhere else in the world, including the globally threatened Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Golden Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis ssp. kandti) and the Critically Endangered Hills Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hillorum). There are also 12 mammal and seven bird species that are globally threatened, and with 317 species of birds recorded, Nyungwe National Park is one of the most important sites for bird conservation in Africa.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ1356828

Inception2004

Area1010 ha

Administrative areaQ1037 · Q853162

WikipediaNyungwe Forest

Chinese Wikipedia尼温圭国家公园

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(x)The most important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity.

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Cultural archive

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Brief synthesis Nyungwe National Park is one of the most biologically important and diverse Afromontane forests in Africa.

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