Het park is ook de overwinteringsplek voor vogels uit Siberië. Virunga National Park is unique with its active chain of volcanoes and rich diversity of habitats that surpass those of any other African ...

“The DRC is four times the size of Kenya and far more diverse,” Virunga National Park director Emmanuel de Mérode said. “In 2012, Kenya earned over a billion dollars with tourism. The ...

But for one group of trekkers their trip certainly lived up to its promise, as they got up close to an erupting volcano. Staff at Virunga National Park carried out a new overnight trek to the site ...

Further details were not immediately available. Virunga National Park features the active Mt. Nyiragongo volcano and some of the world's last lowland gorillas. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

I’ve struggled with the “going quietly” part of this expedition into Congo’s famed Virunga National Park. The jungle ... lakes, active volcanoes and plains. It is home to lowland and ...

“We’re two minutes away now,” says Virunga National Park’s southern sector head ... with a varied landscape of active volcanoes, savannahs, mountains, lakes and forests.

Mountain gorilla habitat at the slope of volcano mountain, Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Peter Prokosch/GRID-Arendal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). The DRC government announced in July 2022 ...

an estimated 190 of them in Congo around the Mikeno volcano. Nov. 25, 2008: A mountain gorilla holding her baby is seen in the Virunga National Park, near the Ugandan border in eastern Congo.

Two British nationals have been abducted following an incident Friday at the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UK Foreign Office said it was “in close contact with ...

Africa’s first national park, Virunga, is 90 years old today ... swamps, lowland forests, active volcanoes and snow-capped mountains. It is also home to over 700 bird species and 200 mammal species.