The Virunga Gorilla Marathon, first held in Kisoro town last year, returns to the foothills of Mount Muhabura on May 31st, with over 1,000 runners expected to participate. Launched to ...

Owing to the region’s chronic instability, a mere one-tenth of Virunga is accessible to visitors—and really only half of that could be described as tourist friendly. The park’s VIPs—the ...

Rwanda’s Virunga volcanoes have become the go-to for ... it’s underrated and waiting to be explored – especially one profound tourism experience that costs $800 an hour, but is said to ...

The kit for the 2025 Virunga Gorilla Marathon was launched Wednesday after at Kampala Serena Hotel, as the countdown to the ...

The Academy Award-nominated documentary film Virunga, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, tells the story of Africa’s oldest national park and last natural habitat for the endangered mountain ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. After almost two decades of violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – during which time the Virunga National ...

2024 46COM 7A.46 - General Decision on the World Heritage properties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2024 46COM 7A.50 - Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (N 136) 2024 ...

Saint Petersburg - The committee overseeing World Heritage Sites yesterday cautioned that petroleum exploration in Virunga National Park could cause serious harm and should be halted. WWF, the ...

Virunga National Park, inscribed under criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv) in 1979, was included in the List of World Heritage in Danger in December 1994, due to the tragic events in Rwanda and the ...

Tourism is a powerful force ... a resemblance to the wild that once stretched unbroken across the continent. Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo established in 1925, set ...

The rampant overuse of pesticides and fertilizers in the fertile volcanic region of the Virunga Mountains is causing significant environmental concerns, contributing to soil degradation and ...