Gorilla Trekking in Congo-Poaching Reasons

Why gorillas are hunted by Poachers

In the hinterland of the Kahuzi-Biega in Democratic republic of Congo, there are traditionally acceptable behavior that hunters who annihilate the bushbucks, agrarian chimpanzees and gorillas amid added animals alone allure accident assimilate themselves. Therefore, the frequencies for hunting are low in the case of the bushbuck and chimpanzees. Surprisingly, the hunter alternative account is aerial for the gorillas: the afterlife of elephants from the breadth (771 in 1996 and <5 in 2001), the better game, may accept affronted the hunting of gorillas, the additional better beastly in the park. This affects the development of gorilla trekking Safaris in African DR Congo basin.

Moreover, the massive accession of Rwandan refugees and the access of the wars in 1996-2001 added the adopted exports of babyish gorillas from the park. Meat and abduction of babyish gorillas were mentioned as the above affidavit for hunting the gorillas. As aboriginal as July 1992, a adolescent Grauer’s apache was confiscated at Kigali airport in Rwanda!! It was about to be beatific as bales to Cairo by an Egyptian (Kalpers, 1993). He added appear that in the Virunga National Esplanade in Congo, the abundance apache on which apache biking / mountain gorilla trekking is based, G. g. beringei, was the absolute ambition of poachers who formed for a arrangement of beastly merchants, and that absolute families of gorillas were decimated to abduction adolescent individuals destined to adopted zoos.

Rwanda Gorilla Tours

Ruanda is found in East Africa, near Uganda, Congo, and Tanzania. It is home to the endangered mountain gorillas. Gorilla tours in Rwanda are conducted in volcanoes national park, also known as Parc National des Volcans. It is located 2-3 hours drive. Gorilla tracking is the highlight for any holiday vacation or Rwanda Tour in Africa.

Parc des Volcans is not only a home to gorillas but also the endangered species of golden monkeys and many birds. A number of tourists all over the world visit gorillas in Rwanda, golden monkeys, visit Dian Fossey Tombs and take cultural or nature walks around the area. Rwanda Tours to watch gorillas range from 1 day gorilla trip to as many as 10 days and above.

Other tour destinations in Rwanda include Nyungwe Forest, with 13 primate species and an adventurous canopy walk, nature to villages and tea plantations, forest walks to water falls, Chimps, black and white colobus monkey trekking among others.

Also Akagera wildlife park is a home to wild game such as Giraffes, Zebras and other antelopes, Buffaloes, Elephants, Hippos and crocodiles on Lake Ihema. Rwanda should be is your next vacation destination in Africa.

Gorillas in the Mist

Rwanda Gorillas in the Mist – My Experience

Gorilla Tours: Of all the shows, you can be on a safari in Africa, for me, perhaps the most haunting and memorable is an encounter with a mountain gorilla in Africa.

Few adventure experiences can compare with the sheer wonder and admiration humiliating to witness these creatures in nature. It was the famous American naturalist George Schaller, who said "Nobody who looks at a gorilla's eyes - intelligent, gentle, vulnerable - can remain unchanged, the gap between ape and man disappears, we know that the gorilla still lives in us."

Schaller is revealing beautifully and succinctly, to see African lions, herds of elephants, leopards and rhinos are exciting and certainly an event focusing on, however,  there is something more, something almost ethereal, like clouds of these elusive beasts.

It is this ethereal feeling which resonates so heartbreaking when it comes to you face to face with a distant relative at a time so strange yet so familiar. With fewer than 800 mountain gorillas in the wild in small scattered areas in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC, the pulses to see these animals, learn from them and therefore understand their situation has never been greater. The major threats to gorillas due to habitat loss to human settlements and agricultural land, sometimes poaching.

Volunteer in Rwanda on Your Holiday

Voluntourism is one of the new and exciting holiday activity that you can take while in Rwanda. Also known as a Land of a Thousand Hills, Rwanda is one of the few adventure places in Africa where one can take a volunteering holiday. You can decide to spend from 1 Week to 4 weeks trip in Uganda - Here is your chance to volunteer with the Rwandan Projects that include humanitarian and local community projects.

On your volunteer holiday or Tours to Rwanda, you can take as well as several adventures. You can take a gorilla safari in Rwanda. There are also several sightseeing tours of natural heritage + volunteer education. Besides the gorillas, Rwanda has two other national parks that offer, for example, a range of wildlife and biodiversity.