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 ...

The park has largely succeeded in protecting mountain ... For Virunga has been, going on two decades, a war zone. In 1994 the horrific ethnic conflict in neighboring Rwanda that led to the ...

The rampant overuse of pesticides and fertilizers in the fertile volcanic region of the Virunga Mountains is causing ... according to experts at the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources ...

Combining these numbers with the gorillas living in the Virunga mountain range of Rwanda and Congo, the overall total population of mountain gorillas is now over a thousand, at 1,063 "Mountain ...

It’s not too late for us to protect our mighty mountain cousins. Mountain gorillas live in just two isolated groups – one in the Virunga volcanoes – spanning the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the ...

The critically endangered animals live only in two locations, Bwindi and the Virunga Massif area, which spans parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Rwanda. A total of 400 mountain ...