The protected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo include national parks, biosphere reserves, wildlife reserves, nature reserves, scientific reserves, community reserves, and hunting reserves.
These areas total 324,290 km2, or 13.83% of the country's land area.
[1] Several of the country's protected areas have been internationally designated as World Heritage Sites or biosphere reserves by UNESCO, or as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.
(IUCN protected area category II)