Nyungwe Forest
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How it came to be
Nyungwe Forest spreads over the mountains of the Albertine Rift in south-western Rwanda. Made up of the Cyamudongo, Gisakura and Nyungwe forests, it covers about 102,000 ha between 1,480 m and 2,950 m. It is the largest montane rainforest left in Rwanda and sits on the divide between the Congo basin to the west and the Nile basin to the east.
In 1933 the Belgian colonial government made it a forest reserve, after concern since the 1920s about forest being cleared for pasture. Between 1958 and 1973 the forest shrank by more than 150 km² through fire, woodcutting, hunting and small-scale farming.
The forest holds 1,468 species of vascular plants and about a fifth of Africa's primate species, among them chimpanzees and golden monkeys. 317 bird species have been recorded, and Hill's horseshoe bat lives nowhere else. Since 2020 the park has been managed by African Parks, and it was inscribed in 2023.
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