The North Kivu Region with its capital city and gatway of Goma has many tourist favorite. This region has been turning into a ...

They planned to complete a four-day gorilla trekking tour in the DRC before undertaking the more than 3000km journey home. Little did they know that a four-day package to Virunga National Park would ...

and Virungas National Park, respectively. The previous mountain gorilla census of 2018 in Bwindi-Sarambwe gave an estimate of 459 individuals. Together with the Virunga census results of 2015 ...

The two subspecies of eastern gorilla. BluesyPeteKbnp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In 2021, host Mark Vins and a camera team headed to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

specifically in Volcanoes National Park in the country's far northwest. Part of the Virunga Mountains, a range of dormant volcanoes covered in biodiverse rainforest, the park is home to approximately ...

The night before, the country’s preeminent primatologist Dr. Emily Otali had briefed me on what to expect during my trek into the jungle, while staying at Kibale Lodge—the newest property in Volcanoes ...

It was a cradle of life, culture, and spirituality. Within its embrace lay Virunga National Park, home to endangered mountain gorillas and a testament to the region’s unparalleled biodiversity.

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

A mountain gorilla at Virunga National Park. Image courtesy of Fanny Schertzer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). Governments in the region are well aware of the potential for cacao production.

You will continue through the banana plantations and then you reach the views of the great Virunga volcanoes of Rwanda ... to the biggest Home of mountain gorillas which is the Bwindi Impenetrable ...