Africa is the second largest continent in the world, the land of the most spectacular habitats on the planet: savannahs, rainforests, deserts, volcanic landscapes, mountains and coastlines. It is also home to an incredible wealth of animals.

Here are the vast herds of the great migration on the mottled plains of the Masai Mara and the Serengeti, elephants grazing in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, a wild gorilla in Volcanoes National Park. The continent has a surprising number of national parks, which help to preserve the different species living in these areas, many of them threatened with extinction.