The great increase in the rate at which poaching is done in the Greater Virunga Landscape has caused a great sense of fear among the conservation fraternity from the countries that do share the ecosystem where we can find a huge population of Mountain Gorilla. This is after they found two dead gorillas within the first days of February, they were discovered by park rangers in the Greater Virunga Landscape and it is believed to have been killed by poacher and a number of elephants were killed.
According to the Deputy Secretary Maxime Nzita Nganga who is in charge of community relations in the Greater Virunga Tran boundary Collaboration GVTC mentioned that illegal hunting has greatly increased in the latest years more so in the most unreachable areas of this large park which goes through some parts of Rwanda, DR Congo and Uganda. Usually, illegal hunters go out for the areas where people do not normally visit which are why the chose the deeper ends of the savannah.
Rica Rwigamba, the Director of Tourism at Rwanda Development Board (RDB) while she was addressing The New Times, she mentioned that said that killing of gorilla and the elephant was unacceptable and a hazardirous to conservation practice and they therefore condemn such a behavior that is devastating their acts conservation activities within the Greater Virunga Massif. There will therefore be dealing with the problem of illegal hunting immediately she added.
She said that they will be holding a meeting to device means of wiping out this increasing growing vice more so on the side of Congo which is why the 3 countries have got to join efforts if they are to completely solve the problem. It is important to remember that much as the poaching too much on the side .of Congo, they will soon be in any of the remaining countries because they fall animals so where they go is where they go too. Therefore the countries will have joint patrol to arrest the poachers.
They will be working as a group which will include the Greater Virunga Landscape together with the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda; as well as the Kibale Conservation Area, Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, and Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area in Uganda all with an aim of protecting the antelopes and other small animals which are usually hunted down for human consumption.
