An outstanding student helper, he shared my aim to balance research with the goal of saving the imperiled mountain gorillas that I was studying from my base camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda ...

It will be an arduous, even grueling job. The physical challenges will include covering each of six of the Virunga Mountains from saddle to summit, exploring every gully, ravine, and slope.

Volcanoes National Park is a national park in northwestern Rwanda. It covers 160 square kilometres of rainforest and encompasses five of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains. Volcanoes ...

Per Virunga's official website, this includes 218 mammals, 706 birds, and 22 primates. Most notably, the park is known for its population of mountain gorillas, which are endangered and frequently ...

They can be found in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and a network of parks in the Virunga Massif range of mountains which straddle the borders of the three countries. In 2018 ...

Volcanoes National Park is a national park in northwestern Rwanda. It covers 160 square kilometres of rainforest and encompasses five of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains. Eastern Lowland ...

The world’s smallest population of mountain gorillas—a subspecies of the eastern gorilla—is split in two and scientists have debated whether they may be two separate subspecies. A bit more than half ...

“Virunga is an endemic area, meaning that some wildlife like mountain gorillas cannot only be found anywhere except in the landscape in the world. This calls for combined transboundary efforts ...