Virunga National Park: Marred by violence

The recent clashes between national park rangers and suspected Rwandan rebels in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo has brought the the 'Virunga National Park' in the news for all the wrong reason. The ongoing civil war together with poaching have have considerably ruined the flora and fauna of this UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.

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• The Virunga National Park is situated in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo bordering Rwanda and Uganda.
• The park, earlier known as Albert National Park, came up as the Africa's first national park in 1925.
• The, largest park of the continent, is home to thousands of rhinos and 200 endangered mountain gorillas.
• DR Congo's only population of endangered mountain gorillas reside here.