The Congolese Wildlife Authority slowly lost control of Virunga and Unesco changed the World Heritage Site status to "endangered," the park says ... as saying on a National Geographic blog last ...

“Virunga National Park has suffered more service deaths amongst its rangers than any protected ... The Virunga Widows’ Fund can be found at www.gorilla.cd WWF is a long term supporter of the ...

Five rangers and their driver have been killed at the Virunga National Park in the ... Congo's armed groups are also based in the park, where they often poach animals. Virunga is home to about ...

(Read about Virunga's park warden, National Geographic Explorer Emmanuel ... (Read the lessons learned on how to stop Ebola in its tracks.) Wild animals like monkeys and bats sold for food are ...

Why are so many rangers being murdered in Virunga National Park?Why are so many rangers being murdered in Virunga National Park?

Aerial census of wildlife populations has not been undertaken since 1995 ... at the twenty-first extraordinary session of the Bureau to be held on 28 and 29 November 1997, in Naples, Italy. VII.13 ...

His main focus has been support for African wildlife rangers in remote and difficult national parks and reserves. His work was primarily in the parks of eastern DRC, working to sustain the national ...

Virunga is national property ... else—that along with the slow return of wildlife, the long-abandoned Rwindi Hotel may also return, if the park can find the money to restore it.

Mountain gorillas live in just two isolated groups – one in the Virunga volcanoes – spanning the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and one in Bwindi ...

Virunga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is Africa’s oldest protected space and a testament to the biodiversity and natural beauty of the continent. But the park has faced ...