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Encyclopedia: Virunga National Park The Virunga National Park lies in the Virunga Mountains of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcans National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori National Park in Uganda. People who viewed "Virunga National Park" also viewed: Volcans National Park (French: Parc National des Volcans) lies in north western Rwanda and borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Virunga-National-Park   (982 words)

Virunga National Park The Virunga National Park is a World Heritage Site in Danger. This situation is the work of the soldiers who indulge in poaching in the Virunga National Park." This is only one example of many. At the moment, park authorities base their remaining hope on existing environmental assets for tourism such as the presence of habituated gorilla families and large mammals of the plains, such as elephants, buffalo herds, antelopes, etc. However, sufficient funds are needed to ensure the protection of these assets, as they are under great pressure. www.berggorilla.de /english/gjournal/texte/20virunga.html   (1259 words)

Virunga National Park Mountain Gorillas Democratic Republic of Congo... Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) is home to an exceptional diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. RDC's Virunga National Park, at almost 2 million acres, is an enormous park abounding in landscapes and wildlife. Established in 1925 as Albert National Park (809,000ha), it was revised August 22, 1969 as Parc National des Virunga, or Virunga National Park. www.safari.co.za /africa_virunga_national_park.html   (819 words)

afrol News - Congo's Virunga Park celebrates 80th anniversary Established in 1925 as Albert National Park, the park was later renamed in the 1970s as the Virunga National Park. The Virunga National Park is one of the most biologically diverse regions of Africa, with over 700 species of birds and 200 species of mammals. Celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Virunga Park were however dampened with the recent murder of a ranger by rebels who use the park as a military base and cause destructions. www.afrol.com /articles/16186   (663 words)

Virunga National Park Working with ICCN and UWA (parks authority in Uganda) to improve collaboration and joint activities will help the Virunga park in particular because many of the negative impacts come from activities of Ugandans in the park. Virunga park is still in dire need of assistance. The UN Foundation and UNESCO are providing some support for rangers salaries ($30 per month), and all the International NGOs working in the park have provided some support to wardens stipends ($50-100 per month). albertinerift.org /arift-home/arift-protectedareas/virunga   (425 words)

Virunga National Park --  Encyclopædia Britannica Elephants crossing a stream in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kilimanjaro National Park covers the mountain from 6,000 feet to the summit, and other parks include Mount Kenya above 10,200 feet, the moorland zone of the Aberdares, and a sector of the Kenya portion of Mount Elgon. This famous crater is one of the main attractions in Pinacate National Park. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075495?tocId=9075495   (939 words)

Protected Areas Programme - Mertens, H. A new census of the larger ungulates of the Virungas National Park, Zaire. Vershuren, J. Ornithological observations in Zaire, principally in the Virunga National Park. The impact of elephants and hippoptamuses on the habitat of the Virunga National Park, Zaire Chronological evolution of their populations. www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/virunga.html   (1781 words)

The Scotsman - International - Mountain gorilla region under threat In June it was reported that a third of the area at Rwanda’s largest national park, Akagera, was burned in a single week by poachers. The five-year regional war in the Democratic Republic of Congo supposedly ended last year, but militias at the heart of the fighting still use the Virunga park - a World Heritage Site - as a base for bloody incursions into all three countries, which also keep armies in the forest. Virunga comprises only 164 square miles of habitat, and 355 of the world’s 700 mountain gorillas live in Congo, so six square miles is a big loss. thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=983442004   (1140 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Virunga National Park Virunga National Park, national park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC, formerly known as Zaire). The 150-sq-km (60-sq-mi) Volcans National Park in Rwanda contains the most beautiful areas of the Virunga, including Volcan Karisimbi, high-altitude... Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Virunga National Park ca.encarta.msn.com /Virunga_National_Park.html   (133 words)

peopleandplanet.net > biodiversity > newsfile > virunga's mountain gorillas still under pressure Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is mainly composed of tropical forest, grasslands, swamps, steppes, snowfields, lava plains and savannas. Since April, some 6,000 of people, mainly from Rwanda and some from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have cleared large tracts of forest in the Mikeno sector of the Virunga National Park for agriculture and livestock. Not only is Virunga Park one of only two places on Earth where mountain gorillas exist, it is also one of the most important conservation areas in Africa, harbouring over 200 species of mammals and over 700 species of birds, many of them endangered. www.peopleandplanet.net /doc.php?id=2296   (561 words)

NWF - International Wildlife Magazine - Gorillas, Mountain Norbert Mushenzi and the rangers of Virunga National Park Virunga park had been in crisis for several years, since civil war and genocide ravaged neighboring Rwanda. Turning to the east, he faced the park boundary, an abrupt line of forest that rose in misty waves to the summits of the Virunga volcanoes, home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas. www.nwf.org /internationalwildlife/1998/gorilla.html   (2476 words)

Zaire In 1994 Virunga National Park, refuge for 350 of the 610 remaining mountain gorillas, was invaded by refugees from Rwanda, over 1,000,000 of whom settled in a small, filthy area beside the park. According to the World Wildlife Fund, Zaire's national parks, including Virunga, Garamba, and the Okapi Fauna Reserve, were threatened with collapse during the fighting between Mobutu Sese Seko and Alliance of Democratic Forces of Laurent Kabila. During Kabila's rebellion in 1997, Garamba national park was used as a base by mercenaries to launch former dictator Mobutu's counter-offensive. rainforests.mongabay.com /20zaire.htm   (1009 words)

Virunga National Park Virunga National Park was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger at the 18th Session of the World Heritage Committee (1994) in the wake of the war in neighbouring Rwanda and the subsequent massive influx of refugees from that country which led to massive deforestation and poaching at the site. The park of Virunga offers within its 790,000 hectares an incomparable diversity of habitats: from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from the lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of the volcanoes. The national government was informed of the Committee's willingness to co-operate with IUCN as well as other institutions such as the World Bank, and to provide technical co-operation and training assistance, the better to face current threats to the site. www.unesco.org /africa/portal/patrimoine/sites/63.htm   (370 words)

Kingdom of gorillas invaded by farmers ~ Thousands of people deforest mountain gorilla habitat Virunga National Park is Africa’s first protected area, originally gazetted as Albert National Park (after Prince Albert of Belgium) in 1925 and contains more mammals and birds than any other park in Africa. WCS, WWF and ZSL also stress that international assistance is vital in helping support DR Congo’s park authority—the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN)—in peacefully evacuating illegal settlers from Virunga National Park, both in the gorilla area and elsewhere where invasions have taken place during Congo’s bloody war. Earlier this year, park officials from Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and other conservationists announced an amazing 17 percent increase in the Virunga’s mountain gorilla population to 380 individuals, a testament to the dedication of all parties to protect the great apes and their habitat. wcs.org /353624/2788676   (536 words)

AGPix.com :: View Large Preview & Download Comp Images Caption: Silverback mountain gorilla "Rugabo" in Virunga National Park, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire). Silverback mountain gorilla "Rugabo" in Virunga National Park, the Democratic... Location: Virunga National Park, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire) www.agpix.com /view_caption.php?image_id=3018&photog=1   (151 words)

Virunga National Park The guard post in Congo's Virunga National Park, where Bisimwa and 32 other park staff were based, had been attacked in the middle of the night by nearly 100... Mgahinga adjoins Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park. Adjacent parks in Congo and Uganda are both known as Virunga National Park. conservation.mongabay.com /news/Virunga_National_Park.htm   (678 words)

Rwanda National Parks Dying Rwindi-Rutshuru plains of the Virunga National Park have been National Park, refugees have invaded the Tshiamberibu enclave United Nations agencies find national parks, created sixty years forests.org /archive/africa/deathpar.htm   (1319 words)

6/7/2004 -- Mountain gorilla habitat destroyed in massive illegal forest clearing WWF is asking the governments of Rwanda and DRC to take appropriate action against illegal farming in Virunga National Park, and to instruct their respective local authorities to ensure that no incentives are given to farmers for clearing forest in the protected area. 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 in Northern Rwanda, and the southern sector of Virunga National Park in DRC. Virunga National Park is now a World Heritage Site. www.forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=33327   (1334 words)

21/5/2002 -- KENYA: Virunga National Park under siege from displaced people Virunga National Park, located in the DRC, has been a target for large numbers of displaced and landless people, especially in the past three months. Virunga National Park was established in 1925 as Africa’s first protected area. Nairobi, Kenya — WWF is urging the Goma government to stop the settlement of displaced people in Virunga National Park in order to halt the massive destruction of this World Heritage Site. forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=11267   (723 words)

Archived conservation news articles on Virunga National Park The pressure group said the damage was being done in Virunga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the borders with Rwanda and Uganda... Adjacent parks in Congo and Uganda are both known as Virunga National Park. Stacking lava rocks, 200 workers are building a wall at the Rwandan border of Virunga National Park in an effort to stop farmers, fighters and refugees from... conservation.mongabay.com /files/Virunga_National_Park.htm   (469 words)

Congo's hippos hunted, eaten to extinction VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- In his poaching days in the Congo forests, Guillaume Kasereka used a rusty Russian-made rocket launcher to kill hippos for meat. Only about 800 remain in Virunga National Park, in the northeast of the country, down from 29,000 in the mid-1970s, according to Walter Dzeidzic of the World Wildlife Fund in Congo. "The enemies" is the villagers' term for the estimated 5,000 Hutu rebels in Virunga National Park who are notorious for looting Congolese villages and raping their women. seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/1105AP_Congo_Disappearing_Hippos.html   (459 words)

Queen Elizabeth National Park Queen Elizabeth National Park is 1,978 Km2 in area and is situated astride the Equator in the Western Rift Valley of South West Uganda, close to the Southern most tip of the tabled, mist covered "Mountains of the Moon - Rwenzori Mountains and is contiguous with Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire). Queen Elizabeth National Park together with Virunga National Park in (DRC) completely encircles Lake Edward, which is connected to Lake George by the Kazinga Channel. The lodge is located in the prime area for the park’s attraction; it is the door gate for the entire of Queen Elizabeth National Park. www.touristholidayafrica.com /qenp.htm   (1203 words)

Definition of Virunga National Park Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The Virunga Mountains are home of the mountain gorilla. www.wordiq.com /definition/Virunga_National_Park   (206 words)

Untitled Document The three national parks of the Virunga/Volcanoes region became embroiled directly in the civil war because the warring parties each suspected their enemies of using the area as a refuge. The Virunga Volcanoes region encompasses three protected areas in three neighboring nations: Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda. The establishment of refugee camps adjacent to the area resulted in the destruction of more than 150 square kilometers of the forest cover of the Virunga National Park and the deterioration of the aesthetic value of the landscape. www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/africa/125/125/chap10.htm   (567 words)

B&RD News: Mountain Gorillas - Democratic Republic of Congo We are planning to fund small projects for the local population, the delimitation of Virunga National Park with the local population and park staff, sensitization on television and radio and we want to establish a warning system for the conservation of the national park. This permits the rangers of Sarambwe to conduct patrols and meet with the rangers of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park accross the border to Uganda. Moreover, no salary has been paid to the ICCN staff in the park for 75 months and the population around the park is very poor due to the war. www.kilimanjaro.com /gorilla/brd/zaire.htm   (820 words)

USATODAY.com - Rwandans name 30 rare mountain gorilla babies Adjacent parks in Congo and Uganda are both known as Virunga National Park. Volcanoes National Park, Africa's first, was established by Rwanda's Belgian colonial rulers in 1925 after Carl Akeley of the American Museum of Natural History made a plea to protect the gorillas. VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda's president joined villagers and conservation workers on the edges of this national park Saturday to name 30 rare mountain gorilla babies, in what the country hopes will be an annual ceremony for one of its biggest tourist attractions. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-06-25-rwanda-gorilla-babies_x.htm   (741 words)

Parc National des Virunga News from the Southern Sector of the Virunga National Park (June 1997) Acute Danger For the Virunga National Park (June 1999) www.berggorilla.de /english/gjournal/virunga.html   (42 words)

0360p.htm Fauna The park is best known for mountain gorilla Gorilla gorilla berengei (T) with a population in 1980 of 250 in the area covered by the parc national des Volcans, and the Virunga National Park in Zaire, about 110 occurring in the former. Albert National Park, which included the entire volcanoes area, was established in 1929 and divided in 1960 with the independence of Zaire. The park is already reduced to a size which may not be large enough to support viable populatons of some species were it not for the neighbouring protected areas in Zaire and Uganda. sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0360p.htm   (1137 words)

NASA - Gorillas in the Midst of Extinction Established in 1925, the Virunga National Park in the DRC is the oldest park in Africa and connects with six other parks. One place where NASA is helping is in the Virunga Conservation Area which covers the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda and the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Greener cultivated areas on the right of the picture are outside the National Park, in Rwanda; brown areas with burning vegetation are the areas within Virunga National Park in Congo. www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/earthandsun/gorillas.html   (1146 words)

Chapter 3.2 - Action Plan Those in Natal outside the Kruger National Park are mainly confined to the large rivers in the eastern and northern regions of the province. His estimate is 6,900, of which 5,530 occur in national parks or reserves, 1,020 on communal lands and 350 elsewhere. Similar numbers were found in the Murchison Falls National Park in the past but there, too, heavy poaching has reduced the population to remnant numbers although a recent count has not been made. www.iucn.org /themes/ssc/sgs/pphsg/APchap3-2.htm   (3516 words)

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