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Many of the world's forest elephants live in the Dzanga-Sangha region.
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Dzanga-Sangha is home to some of the most spectacular and endangered wildlife species in Africa. These include one of the largest concentrations of forest elephants, large concentrations of lowland gorillas, and countless other animal species, including chimpanzees, bongos (large, colorful antelopes), hundred of birds, insect species probably numbering in the millions, and microorganisms such as fungi and bacteria. Dzanga-Sangha was originally declared a protected area because of the forest elephants, lowland gorillas, and chimpanzees. "But it may turn out that this area's now protecting a large number of very narrowly distributed species found nowhere else in the Congo Basin," Cracraft points out.
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