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| | | | | | | Satellites map volcanic home of Africa’s endangered gorillas
29 June 2004
| A virtual 'overflight' of Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, based on the new Build Environment for Gorilla (BEGo) data products produced for the area. These include a digital elevation model (DEM) of the area, land cover map and base map, all of which will be used to enhance efforts to conserve mountain gorillas in the Park and its surroundings. These maps - plus the satellite imagery they are based on - are shown here draped over the DEM. Similar satellite-derived map products are being produced for other mountain gorilla habitats across Central Africa, several of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Credits: ESA | |  |  | |
| | | | | A baby mountain gorilla. A decade of intensive conservation efforts has paid off as the mountain gorilla population in Central Africa has been increasing – but on last count remains lower than seven hundred, with updated figures due soon. A joint ESA/UNESCO project called BeGO (Build Environment for Gorilla project) aims to bolster conservation efforts with data from space.
Credits: International Gorilla Conservation Programme | | | | |
| | | | | | The habitat of the mountain gorillas is located on a transboundary area straddling the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda and including 5 natural parks that are or are nominated-to-be- on the World Heritage List : Virunga National Park (DRC), Kahuzi-Biega National Park (DRC), Bwindi National Park (Uganda) , Mgahinga National Park (Uganda) and the National Park of the Volcanoes (Rwanda). | | | | |
| | | | | | In this transfrontier region of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the volcanic highlands of the Virungas shelter the last 600 plus mountain gorillas in the world. Photo: Courtesy of International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP) a coalition of AWF,WWF,and FFI. | | | | |
| | | | | | Photo: Courtesy Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund | | | | |
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