Congo - Tourism - Ecotourism, a sector with considerable untapped potential

The richness of the country's flora and fauna has led the authorities of Congo, a large forested country, to establish protected areas. Developing ecotourism is a government ambition to ensure that this sector truly contributes to the national economy and job creation.

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Congo has five national parks, several reserves, and great ape sanctuaries. These cover the country from north to south and east to west and are prime locations for observing large equatorial wildlife. In the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, located in the north, you can mainly see forest buffalo and elephants, monkeys—especially gorillas and chimpanzees—and numerous varieties of antelope: sitatungas, bushbucks, duikers, and sylvicapres.

In the north of the country, the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and the Lac Télé Community Reserve are also home to a significant population of forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, forest lions, buffalo, panthers, and more than 300 species of birds and many other small mammals.

In the Lésio-Louna/Léfini reserve, lowland gorillas, antelopes, bush pigs, hippopotamuses, etc. live in total freedom. In the Kouilou department, the Conkouati Douli National Park, which stretches from the ocean to the Mayombe Mountains, is very rich in flora and fauna, notably forest elephants, chimpanzees and gorillas, and has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List since June 12, 2008.

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All sorts of water birds—fish eagles, herons, kingfishers—can be seen as they travel up the Congo, Oubangui, Alima, Niari, and Sangha rivers, as well as the more discreet hippopotamuses (toward Mossaka) and crocodiles (toward Impfondo). Migrating toward sustainable tourism is the goal of the Congolese government, which signed a $14 million funding agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in December 2020 through the Congo Conservation Company (CCC) group. With great ambitions in the development of ecotourism, considered one of the strategic areas of economic diversification, CCC is already working on biodiversity conservation and the promotion of ecotourism in the protected areas of Odzala-Kokoua, in the Cuvette Ouest department, and in that of Nouabalé-Ndoki, in Sangha. CCC's new strategy is to develop ecotourism in the animal parks of Odzala and Nouabalé-Ndoki. The objective is to attract as many tourists as possible to Congo, with a view to making it a better tourist destination and a lever that can contribute to the national economic dynamic.

Regarding the integrated conservation project, with the communities, in Lake Télé, it is about promoting the management of peatland ecosystems and the promotion of ecotourism.

This project, validated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will be implemented over a period of five years with a budget of more than six million dollars.

According to the latest World Bank report, ecotourism could provide a significant boost to job creation, rural development, and service exports. Its development relies, in particular, on improving regulations and allocating resources to protect natural heritage, strengthening regulatory and monitoring bodies, and expanding transportation infrastructure and marketing efforts.