For 13 years I lived with mountain gorillas on the misty slopes of the Virunga volcanoes, which form a section of the borders between Rwanda, Zaire, and Uganda . In a study area of 25 square ...

Three decades after the groundbreaking researcher was killed in Rwanda, the ape population ... mist-shrouded slope of the Virunga Mountains, and turns her attention to a silverback known as ...

This park, 15 mi/25 km east of Gisenyi, protects the Rwandan portion of the spectacular Virunga Mountains, which straddle the borders with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Virunga ...

This site, which spans DRC, Rwanda and Uganda, is one of just two places where this gorilla subspecies is still found. “Mountain gorilla numbers have been rising steadily in the Virunga Massif for the ...

Gen Bruno Mandevu said the clash had occurred in the Virunga National Park, on Congolese territory - a claim Rwanda denied. He said the Congolese troops initially thought they were fighting one of ...

It provides sanctuary to iconic species like mountain gorillas and elephants ... Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Virunga National Park in DRC. It is in the Central Albertine rift, areas ...

Virunga National Park is Africa's first National Park, a World Heritage Site, and is renowned for its extremely high biodiversity - including the world famous mountain gorillas, as well as important ...

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standing at 3,711 metres above sea level is one of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga mountains of the Albertine Rift. It sits between the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda ...