Grauer's Gorilla

On September 13, 2012, a young gorilla was brought to the Kahuzi-Biega National Park headquarters by a community conservation group, who claimed to have been given the baby by the...

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund In­ter­na­tio­nal (DFGFI) has expanded its efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to build a new Grauer’s Gorilla Conservation and...

Some of the largest tracts of forest habitat in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are located in the Walikale and Lubutu territories. Although the forests are not...

The Maїko National Park (MNP) is one of 7 national parks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was established by Presidential Decree no. 070/312, dated 20...

The Maïko National Park is one of the least known and most biodiverse of all parks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to the park’s inaccessibility and remoteness, the...

The Burhinyi Community Forest, located in the South Kivu province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is one of several patches of tropical forest located between...

As part of the monitoring activities taking place In Maïko National Park during the festive period, between Christmas 2011 and the New Year, extensive patrols were carried out...

The population of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo depends on charcoal for cooking. To obtain it, they cut large areas of forest, even in national parks and reserves...

First Response Situations

A monitoring plan for gorillas and elephants has just been launched in the highland sector of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park (KBNP). Its pur­pose is to provide information on 10...