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Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park (790,000 hectares) has an extremely diverse range of habitats, from swamps and grasslands to the Rwenzori snowfields at over 5,000 metres above sea level, from lava plains to savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. The park is home to mountain gorillas, around 20,000 hippos live in the river and Siberian birds spend the winter here.
Garamba National Park
The park contains vast expanses of savannah, grassland and woodland, with gallery forests dotted along riverbanks and in swampy hollows, and is home to four large mammals: elephants, giraffes, hippos and, especially, the white rhino. Although much larger than the black rhino, the white rhino is harmless; there are only about 30 left.
Lake Turkana National Parks
Lake Turkana is the saltiest large lake in Africa and an excellent laboratory for studying plant and animal communities. The three national parks are stopovers for migrating waterfowl and major breeding grounds for Nile crocodiles, hippos, and a variety of venomous snakes. The Koubi Fora sediments, rich in mammal, mollusk, and other fossil remains, have contributed more to our understanding of paleoenvironments than any other site on the continent.
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem
The property is located in the floodplain of the Elbe (Labe) River, with sandy soils, oxbow lakes and remains of riverine forests. The overall composition of the land structure and functional uses (pastures, meadows, forests, fields, parks), the network of roads, avenues, rows of trees as well as solitary trees, the network of waterways, the farm buildings and the functional relationships and connections between these components - all of which fully meet the needs of breeding and training Baroque Kladruber draft horses, which were used in ceremonial matters of the Habsburg Imperial Court. The composition of the landscape is evidence of a deliberate treatment of landscape art. The property is a rare example of the union of two cultural landscapes - a living organic landscape, where the primary function predominates, and an artificial landscape, carefully designed and created using the principles of French and English landscape architecture, and an outstanding example of a professionally decorated farm - ferme ornée. The Royal Stud Farm was founded in 1579 and its landscape has been used for this purpose since then.
Taï National Park
The park is one of the last major areas of intact tropical forest in West Africa. It is rich in natural flora, as well as endangered mammal species such as the pygmy hippopotamus and 11 species of monkeys, and has important scientific value.