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Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth

COUNTRY LIFE

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’. Odzala-Kokoua National Park lies deep in the Republic of Congo and is protected by locals on a mission to guard and conserve the natural wonders on their doorstep

Exciting ways to get away from it all

Much of Angola’s wildlife was lost to civil war; now, thanks to years of dedicated conservation efforts, the country and its parks are on their way to becoming Africa’s newest safari star, writes Ian Packham