Since these critically endangered creatures can’t survive in captivity, the only way to see them is by trekking up to their natural habitat: misty cloud ... forests on and around the Virunga ...

“Cloud forests are one of the most threatened habitats because as the climate gets warmer and warmer, the plants can't evolve in time or move up the mountain fast enough,” says Chad ...

Living in cloud forests at 8,000 to 13,000 feet ... divided between two locations. One is the Virunga Mountain Range, including the Mikeno Sector of Virunga National Park in DRC, Volcanoes ...

It is characterised by largely unspoiled tropical montane forests that are extremely rich in biological diversity, including some of the remaining populations of the endangered mountain gorillas.

low altitude and afro-montane forest belts to unique afro-alpine vegetation and permanent glaciers and snow on Monts Rwenzori whose peaks culminate in 5000 m height. The property includes the ...

Mountain gorillas cannot survive in captivity so protection in the wild was their only hope. They live in two groups. One in the Virunga Forest, which straddles the borders between Uganda ...

Cloud forests are strange and ghostly places — akin to coral reefs hidden high on tropical mountains. Stunted trees loom in the mist, gnarled trunks and branches crusted in moss, lichens ...

"Around the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, 50% of the forest is lost since 1880," comments Dr. Andreas Hemp from the University of Bayreuth. He has been carrying out research ...