THEY SAY GORILLA TREKKING is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, yet I find myself clambering through Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park with mud-coated shoes for the fourth time in search of the rare mountain gorillas. As a wildlife conservation advocate, I know just how special the gorilla trekking experience is. This is because mountain gorillas are the world’s most endangered ape, only found in small portions of protected Afromontane forests in northwest Rwanda, southwest Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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