Sudan signed a number of international treaties including Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species and Ozone Layer Protection. It is not clear if these have been ratified by South Sudan.
South Sudan has a large number of environmental issues which include inadequate supplies of drinking water, wildlife populations threatened by excessive hunting and soil erosion.
Although there are a number of designated National Parks and Nature Reserves, the long running civil war may mean that there is inadequate protection for these.
