By Elodie Toto “For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local activists [and] environmentalists,” says François Kamaté ...

By Elodie Toto Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei ...

Virunga National Park's gorillas are the park's most prized residents and its most convincing argument for tourists to venture to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across the border from Rwanda.

Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Africa’s oldest national park. It is also Africa’s most dangerous. On October 25th, park ranger Jean Claude Kiza Vunabandi ...

Virunga National Park:www.virunga.org “Virunga”: A film about the park’s past challenges and its current ones with oil and mineral exploration premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in mid ...

Protecting Virunga Park and seeing Congo’s rich potential. Emmanuel de Merode -- anthropologist, Belgian prince and chief warden of the Virunga National Park -- has dedicated his life to the ...

Virunga National Park Sees Its Worst Violence in a Decade, Director Says. Gunmen recently killed five rangers and a driver—the park’s deadliest attack in recent history.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo’s Virunga National Park has announced the birth of a male gorilla, the first baby this year for the park that says its mountain gorilla families have been ...

Reuters. A dead hippo lies in the water due to anthrax killing the animals in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, in this undated handout picture released April 8, 2025.

Virunga National Park's gorillas are the park's most prized residents and its most convincing argument for tourists to venture to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across the border from Rwanda.