By Bisola Adeyemo
Rwandan authorities have decided to extend Volcanoes National Park forest as some gorillas struggle to coexist in a shrinking habitat.
The expansion however means displacing some families after when ten percent of tourism revenues in Rwanda has been used for building schools, amenities, and a compensation fund, Africanews reports.
Prosper Uwingeli, Director of the Volcanoes National Park, said mountain gorillas have seen an increase over the years conservation success story is now facing a different challenge.
“We have seen challenges, the challenges of the habitat because in the past 60, 50 years, the park lost 54 percent of its size.
“And when the effort was put in place for the mountain gorilla population to recover to the current numbers, the habitat has not changed”, he said.
According to the last census, there are more than 1,000 mountain apes left in the world.
The rising numbers, however, can lead to fighting between the primates, according to the director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda.
