Uganda has the world’s largest population of wild mountain gorillas.
Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park protects more than half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. The rest live in the Virunga Massif, a transboundary conservation area spanning Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mountain gorillas occur only in these two forest regions.
Bwindi’s gorillas are not the same population as those in Uganda’s Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, which forms part of the Virunga range. Conservation programmes use carefully regulated tracking, veterinary work, and habitat protection to support the species. Rwanda is also famous for gorilla tourism because Volcanoes National Park is accessible, but Uganda contains the largest share of the wild population through Bwindi’s substantial population.