The Mukura Forest Reserve is a protected reserve of about 16 square kilometres in northwest Rwanda's Albertine Rift region, on the Congo-Nile crest, and once formed part of a continuous mountain forest stretching from Nyungwe to Volcanoes National Park before becoming an isolated forest fragment. Designated a reserve in 1951 at an original size of 30,000 hectares, it has lost nearly half its forest cover and biodiversity to exploitation by a dense surrounding population with a mean household income of about three dollars a month. Rising to an average elevation of 2,600 metres and receiving about 1,500 millimetres of rainfall annually, the forest supports around 163 recorded bird species.
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1. Mukura Forest Reserve (Wikipedia)
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was designated a reserve in 1951, and originally covered an area of 30,000 ha.
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The Mukura Forest Reserve is a protected reserve in the northwest part of Rwanda, covering about 16 km2.
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The Mukura Forest Reserve is a protected reserve of about 16 square kilometres in northwest Rwanda's Albertine Rift region, on the Congo-Nile crest, and once formed part of a continuous mountain forest stretching from Nyungwe to Volcanoes National Park before becoming an isolated
View the Source2. Mukura Forest Reserve (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata item Q12370524
P31 protected-area class match, verified by search+class allow-list
- Part Of: Rwanda, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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Wikidata Q12370524, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme: Gishwati Mukura Landscape
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This young national park is a global biodiversity hotspot
Wikidata: Rwanda
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