Wildlife habitat, Fauna

"W" National Park of Niger
The W National Park is a major national park in Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso around a meander in the River Niger shaped like a "W".
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Aldabra Atoll
Aldabra can be found in the Indian Ocean, and belongs to the Seychelles. The atoll consists of a group of four larger islands: an oval ring of land crossected by channels.
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Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary is an area within the Central Desert and Coastal Hills biogeographical regions of Oman.
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Banc d'Arguin
Banc d'Arguin National Park, between Sahara and Atlantic Ocean, is recognized mostly for its number of migrating birds.
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Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Puszcza Bialowieska
Bialowieska Primaeval Forest, known as Belaveskaya Pushcha or Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus and Puszcza Bialowieska in Poland, is an ancient woodland straddling the border between Belarus and Poland.
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in southwestern Uganda in East Africa. The park is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and is situated along the Democratic Republic of Congo border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the western Rift Valley.
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Chitwan National Park
Chitwan is a rich natural area in the Terai, the subtropical southern part of Nepal. Until the 1950s it served as a hunting ground for the wealthy.
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Dja Faunal Reserve
Dja Faunal Reserve has been designated because of the diversity of species present in the park, the presence of five threatened species, and lack of disturbance within the park.
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Djoudj
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary provides a range of wetland habitats which prove very popular with migrating birds, many of which have just crossed the Sahara.
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Doñana National Park
Doñana National Park is a wetland / coastal reserve at the delta of the Guadalquivir River and a major site for migrating birds.
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Dong Phayayen
In the mountains of northeast Thailand, the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex is home to more than 800 species of fauna, including 392 species of birds.
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Galapagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species and the studies by Charles Darwin that led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Garamba National Park
Garamba National Park was established in 1938 and is one of Africa's oldest National parks. Garamba is the home to the world's last known wild population of northern white rhinoceroses.
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Gulf of California
Comprising 244 islands and marine areas, the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California in north-eastern Mexico is home to 39 percent of the world's total marine mammal species and a third of the world's marine cetacean species.
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park is one of the last refuges of the rare Mountain Gorilla. Prior to conflicts which have plagued this part of Africa since the 1990's, only an estimated 600 gorillas remained throughout the range.
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Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park is located in Assam, India. Two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses live in the park, and Kaziranga has the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world.
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Keoladeo National Park
Keoladeo National Park is famous for its (water)birds. 375 species can be found here, among them the rare Siberian crane.
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Komodo National Park
The Komodo National Park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller ones.
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Lopé-Okanda
The Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda has seen over 400.000 years of almost continuous human settlement.
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Los Katios National Park
Los Katíos National Park comprises two main regions: the mountains of the Serranía del Darién in the west accounting for 53% of the park, and in the east the floodplain of the Atrato river making up 47%.
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Mana Pools
Mana Pools is a wildlife conservation area centered around four large permanent pools. The designated site consists of three different areas: Mani Pools National Park, and the Sapi & Chewore Safari Areas.
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Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
The Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Himalayan foothills and known for its tiger and elephant populations.
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Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
The Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park was designated a WHS because of its superlative natural formations and because it's the habitat of threatened animal species.
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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
The Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve was created to protect the wintering habitat of the monarch butterfly and contains over 56,000 hectares of land.
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Ngorongoro
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a nature reserve which main feature is the Ngorongoro Crater. The crater floor is covered with open grassy plains that hold both fresh and brackish water lakes.
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Niokolo-Koba National Park
The Niokolo-Koba National Park is known for its wildlife, including elephants, lions, leopards, chimpanzees, baboons, hippopotamuses and the Western giant eland.
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Okapi Wildlife Reserve
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to about 5,000 of the estimated 30,000 okapi surviving in the wild.
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Rainforests of the Atsinanana
The Rainforests of the Atsinananaare are recognized for its very high biodiversity and high level of endemism in both plants and animals.
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Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve is one of the largest fauna reserves of the world, located in the south of Tanzania.
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Serengeti
Serengeti National Park is a 60,000 square kilometer large area of savanna and open woodland. It is home to the largest herds of grazing animals in the world, including more than 2 million wildebeest, 900,000 Thomson's gazelles and 300,000 zebras.
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Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, located in southwest Sichuan province, are home to more than 30% of the world's highly endangered Giant Pandas and is among the most important sites for the captive breeding of these pandas.
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Virunga National Park
The Virunga National Park (formerly Albert National Park) lies in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda.
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Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park in Canada, established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming Wood Bison.
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Wrangel Island
The Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve has the highest level of biodiversity north of the Arctic Circle.
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Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is located in the seismically most active area of the Rocky Mountains. This leads to the existence of 200 species of petrified plants and features like geysers (with 200-250 in number, more than all of the rest of the world combined), hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles.
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