Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

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 ...

By 1973 the population of these great apes in the Virunga Mountains ... would not be so acute if the mountain gorillas had unlimited room to roam. But Volcanoes National Park is just 62 square ...

Half of these gorillas are found in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the rest are in the Virunga Mountains, in habitat shared by Mgahinga National Park in Uganda, Volcanoes National Park ...

The rampant overuse of pesticides and fertilizers in the fertile volcanic region of the Virunga Mountains is causing significant environmental concerns, contributing to soil degradation and ...

Mountain gorillas - an endangered species - survive in only two regions in the world: the Virunga Massif (a chain of volcanoes in East Africa) and Uganda's Bwindi ...