For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local ...

Africa's first. It was renamed Virunga National Park in 1969. Forty years ago, Dian Fossey fled a bloody civil war on the Congo side of the Virungas, where she had been studying mountain gorillas ...

After a while trekking, Mark, accompanying rangers ... Silverback mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park munching leaves, Rwanda, Africa. Image via Depositphotos The largest gorilla recorded was a ...

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new ...

A park ranger looks at a silverback mountain gorilla, in the Virunga National Park, near the Uganda border in eastern Congo, ...

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile and boost conservation efforts: chocolate ...

Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile and boost conservation efforts: chocolate gorillas. Virunga National Park in war-ravaged eastern Congo is marking its ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is ... particularly mountain gorillas, and magnificent landscapes.