Its rich blend of habitats provides key insights into the biogeography of central Africa with the extensive climatic variation that it has been experiencing for the last 10 million years.

[3] Central Africa is familiar with repeated climatic variation that have caused rain forest and savanna expansion and deflation in consideration of the late Pleistocene tectonics defined the Congo Basin.

Widespread and immensely resilient organisms that lived through in islands of habitat and accustomed to spatial fluidity were favored.

Semi-evergreen rainforest is found along the rivers that drain northwards into the Congo Basin, with open woodland, savanna, and grassland in the uplands.

Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are found in the northern part of the ecoregion, including Lukuru area.

[3] The political situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unstable; until the country is stable, no important conservation work is likely.