February 2nd, 2010
Gishwati forest circa 1986. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rwanda has announced a planned expansion of the Gishwati National Conservation Park. The effort with increase the size of the park by 21 percent—from 3,018 acres to 3,665 acres—and marks the beginning of a conservation corridor, dubbed the “Forest of Hope,” intended to help a group of endangered chimpanzees…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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