Kangari Hills Forest Reserve is a non-hunting forest reserve in centre of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

. The area became a forest reserve in 1924. Laying between 200 and 500 metres above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...

 the Reserve has an area of 8,573 hectares (85.73 km²), although parts of this area have been encroached upon by farming and mining

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

. The Reserve is one of the few places in Sierra Leone where the endangered forest elephant survives.