African Nation: Rwanda Conservation and Exchange Earner

african nation: A tourist takes photos of a male silverback mountain gorilla in Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda, according to The Toronto Star. Conservation is big business in the East African nation where tourism is the top foreign exchange earner. Earlier this year the WWF conservation group said the mountain gorilla subspecies was making a comeback, with numbers above 600 from an estimated 480 in 2010 in the Virunga Massif, a mountainous area encompassing parts of Rwanda, Uganda and Congo. Ben Curtis / The Associated Press In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, tourists routinely trek to see gorillas in their natural habitat. In May 2017 the government doubled the price of a permit to visit the gorillas from 750 to 1,500, making the fee the highest in the region. Conservation is big business in the East African nation, where tourism is the top foreign exchange earner. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.