There are only some 700 mountain gorillas remaining, half of them in the Central Albertine Rift. The Central Albertine rift covers Virunga national park in DR Congo, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park ...

East Africa’s Albertine Rift extends nearly a thousand miles from the border between northwestern Uganda and northeastern DRC down through Rwanda and Burundi to Malawi. Dotted with mountains and ...

The Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) has been mandated by peer members of African Mountain Partnership to coordinate their efforts to promote sustainable mountain development ...

A female adult mountain gorilla pictured at Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park in 2021. With hundreds of mountain gorillas in residence, ... Welcome to Africa’s Albertine Rift, ...

A team of scientists led by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has developed a conservation blueprint to protect one of the most biodiverse regions in Africa: the Albertine Rift, home to mountain ...

More Lake Kivu is in the Albertine Rift, ... Lake Kivu’s northern edge is just an hour from the home of Rwanda’s mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, for example.

One of Rwanda’s worst kept secrets alludes to the country’s natural grandeur. Within such a small country are packed a variety of such magnificent sights and experiences. This splendor is largely a ...

The Albertine Rift region straddling along the borders of DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania, and stretching over a North-Ssouth distance of 1,000 km, supports one of Africa's unique montane ...

As the global population soars toward nine billion by 2045, this corner of Africa shows what’s at stake in the decades ahead. The Rift is rich in rainfall, deep lakes, volcanic soil, and ...

Background The Albertine Rift Montane Forests Ecoregion is an area of exceptional faunal and floral endemism. These afromontane forests also support many endangered species such as the Mountain and ...

The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Documents WHC/23/45.COM/8B and WHC/23/45.COM/INF.8B2, ; Inscribes Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (x);; ...