# tourism New Dawn Associates promotes responsible tourism and on this note wish to emphasize the prime importance for biodiversity Conservation in the Volcanic national park. Its no hidden secret that this volcanic stretch is an area immensely endowed with tremendous natural resources and maintaining their ecological balance is of high priority. The Virunga Massif of which the Volcanic National Park is Part of as supports a total of 878 known species of plants, 81 of them trees, and including 124 endemic plants of the Rift Valley, five of which are listed on the IUCN Red List . As for the Volcanic National Park a recent study drew up a list of 301 species of herbaceous plants, 40 species of liana and 36 species of woody plants . The whole of the Virunga Massif forest has a total of 86 known species of mammals, 34 of them being big mammals, 18 species endemic to the western Rift Valley, six species are endangered and 18 have been listed on IUCN Red List. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are only found in the Virunga Massif and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park of Uganda. Mountain Gorillas are endemic sub-species considered to be in critical danger by IUCN. The world population of mountain gorillas in 2004 was estimated at around 800 animals, 380 of which were in Virunga Massif.a gorilla permit @ 750$ per person per permit.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:41:26 +0000
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