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Area
• Total
10 km2 (3.9 sq mi)
• Water (%)
5.3
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (not observed)
Gishwati Forest 1986.
Gishwati Forest 2001.

Gishwati Forest is a protected reserve in the north-western part of Rwanda, not far from Lake Kivu. The reserve’s forests were largely intact in 1978, and substantial forest cover still remained in 1986.[1] During the Rwandan Genocide, wave after wave of refugees arrived in Gishwati Forest and began clearing it, often for subsistence farming. By 2001, only a small circular patch of native forest remained, 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of the forest’s original 250,000.[1] In addition to tremendous loss of biodiversity, the region experiences soil erosion and degradation and landslides.[1] Reforestation efforts in the past few years have increased the remnant native forest to about 2,500 acres (10 km2).[1] Large tea estates occupy the central and northern parts of the reserve.[1]

History

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THIS IS HISTORY

Biodiversity

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Flora

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Fauna

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Conservation

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What remains of the Gishwati Forest is home to a stargering amount of endemic endangered species such as chimpanzees

Plant-It 2020

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In 2011 Plant-It 2020 gave Great Ape Trust and the Gishwati Area Conservation Program a grant to plant 1,000 native trees in and around the Gishwati National Forest in western Rwanda. Plant-It 2020 is a nonprofit international reforestation foundation that was founded by the late singer John Denver.[2]

Corridor Project

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A 10,000 acre corridor We are proposing to establish a 10,000 acre “corridor” of newly planted native trees between the Gishwati Forest and Nyungwe National Park, about 30 miles to the south.


References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Gishwati Forest". NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved 2009-09-012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "Gishwati Area Conservation Program Gets Support for Planting 1,000 Trees". Great Ape Trust. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
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