WCS has a significant presence in Africa with a strong conservation, protected area management, livelihoods, policy and scientific program. Spanning diverse habitats including vast savannahs and dense forests, productive coastlines and montane forests, WCS landscapes include some of the most biodiverse landscapes on earth, as well as some of the world’s most critically endangered and threatened species. The WCS Africa program is taking on these challenges with a regional approach: the WCS Central Africa region ranges from Equatorial Guinea and Gabon across the Congo basin, to eastern DRC; the East and Southern Africa region reaches from Uganda down to Mozambique; the Sudano-Sahel region stretches from Nigeria across to Ethiopia; and the Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean region covers t