Niger

A vast Saharan wilderness of volcanic Massif, sand seas, and prehistoric rock-art that shelters desert antelope, gazelles and the rare scimitar-horned oryx.

A 16th-century Saharan mud-brick mosque with a towering minaret that is the visual symbol of Agadez and one of the most photographed monuments in West Africa.

A sahelian conservation landscape centred on the village of Kouré, 60 km east of Niamey, that shelters the last remaining population of West African giraffes and supports a community-based conservation programme.

Niger's principal museum, founded in 1959 and named after the prolific Tuareg scholar and statesman Boubou-Hama, housing one of West Africa's most important collections of Sahelian art, archaeological finds and ethnographic objects.

The historic Birni quarter of Zinder, centred on the 18th-century palace of the Sultan of Damagaram and surrounded by original mud-brick city walls, representing the political and commercial heart of the Sultanate of Damagaram before the French colonial period.

A tri-national protected area where the Niger and Mekrou rivers converge, forming a Sudanian savanna landscape of gallery forests, floodplains and one of West Africa's strongest concentrations of large mammals.