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 ...
You’ll start by helicoptering from the capital of Kigali over the lush mountains of the countryside—Rwanda is nicknamed the Land of a Thousand Hills for good ... as you sit with cocktail in hand ...
Gland, Switzerland – Over the last two months, 1,500 hectares of prime mountain gorilla habitat have been cleared by illegal settlers in Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site, according to ...
When they come to Rwanda as tourists ... In addition to visiting protected gorillas in the Virunga Mountains, the show’s crew shot footage at Akagera National Park. A game park, Akagera suffered ...
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 ...
Mgahinga is in the Virunga Massif range of mountains which straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo. "This was extremely sad," Andrew Seguya, executive secretary of the GVTC ...
Last year, Rwanda’s critically endangered mountain gorillas saw an all-time high of 25,927 trekkers shuffle around their turf in the Virunga Mountains. In little-visited Gabon, a chart-topping ...
Those who’ve seen one in its natural habitat will agree: There are few African wildlife encounters as soul-stirring as locking eyes with one of our closest relatives, the gorilla. Perhaps it’s ...
Located in southwestern Uganda and bordered by the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda to the south and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is one of the most ...
Over thirty years ago, Dian Fossey established the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda to study the behavior and ecology of mountain gorillas ... Clinical medicine, preventive health care and research ...