East Africa’s Albertine Rift region hosts many animal and plant species that evolved in isolation and are endemic – meaning they’re found nowhere else in the world. But a recent study estimates nearly ...

Albertine Rift home to mountain and Grauer's gorillas, golden monkeys, chimpanzees, elephants and 512 vertebrates and plants unique to the region A team of scientists led by WCS (Wildlife Conservation ...

NEW YORK (May 3, 2012) – A new book produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Albertine Rift Conservation Society documents how well-managed protected areas with good law enforcement have ...

The Albertine Rift Montane Forests Ecoregion is an area of exceptional faunal and floral endemism. These afromontane forests also support many endangered species such as the Mountain and Eastern ...

The Albertine Rift in East Africa is home to more than 500 species of plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet. Created by the stretching apart of tectonic plates, the unique ecosystems of ...

The Albertine Rift region straddling along the borders of DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania, and stretching over a North-Ssouth distance of 1,000 km, supports one of Africa's unique montane ...

Plans are underway to develop commercial oil reserves found in Uganda’s lush Albertine Rift, home of the rare Mountain Gorilla. Environmentalists are worried that oil fever and inadequate legal ...

Cambridge, UK, 14th June 2013—Wild plants and animals important to people’s livelihoods in East Africa’s Albertine Rift region are at risk from climate change, finds a new joint TRAFFIC/IUCN study.

A long lost bird species has been captured in photographs for the first time in 20 years. The yellow-crested helmetshrike, or Prionops alberti, is known to inhabit the Albertine Rift, which is in the ...

A doctoral candidate liked to catch lizards when he was little, but never imagined he would be catching and discovering new species of chameleons. He has now discovered three new species of chameleons ...

A new study predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming. A new ...

The property is part of the Albertine Rift Ecoregion and of the Albertine Rift section of the Afro-montane Regional Centre of Endemism. With its 101,900 ha, it represents the second largest area of ...