Second largest in our list of largest forests in the world, Congo Rainforest, Africa is located across the boundaries of six countries, i.e. namely Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The Congo Rainforest is home to around 600 species of trees,10,000 species of animals and more than 1000 species of birds. It also home to the second largest river on the planet, i.e. the Congo river, and another unique fact about this rainforest that the Congo Basin is also the sole sheltering home of all the three species of gorilla namely the lowland gorilla, the endangered mountain gorilla and the endemic eastern lowland gorilla.