More than two-thirds of West Africa’s 53,000 western chimpanzees live in Guinea, according to new research published in May 2019. But only 17 percent of that total live in state-managed protected areas, such as national parks – this means that without significant expansion of protected areas, new Guinea only protects around 9000 of the 53000 chimpanzees. Another way of looking at this, is that, should Equatorial Guinea deforest all non-protected land, 43,000 west African chimpanzees would loose their home, more than 50% of the west African Chimpanzee population in the whole of west Africa. (It should be noted, that other research claims 60,000 west African chimpanzee live in Gabon, which means that Equatorial Chimpanzees are a lower percentage)

However, what is clear, is that Equatorial Guinea still supports small populations of many species. Western Lowland gorillas and Central chimpanzees are found in Río Muni in the center of Equatorial Guinea (population sizes of both species is unknown) , along with 900 forest elephants.

While growing in popularity, it currently is not a largely travelled country, which means that your visit is likely to have a larger impact than somewhere like Tanzania.

It is not a large country, but has 19% of its area as being protected in some way.

It has more different forms of protected area than many places, we will cover them one by one.

These include 

• 3 National parks
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