text: Slide 11 of 53: As Africa's largest forest national park, Salonga is a highly important habitat for endemic endangered species, including wild bonobos, the Congo peacock and the forest elephant. Set at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, the remote area is only accessible by water but despite this it has a huge poaching problem. Insufficient management capacity, poor governance and weak law enforcement have also troubled the park, which was placed on the danger list in 1999. Since 2015, WWF has co-managed Salonga together with the Congolese park authority ICCN to help protect the area.