Africa Conservation Fund (UK) (“ACF”) was founded in 2005 and aims to promote the conservation of Africa's national parks and reserves, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The organisation works primarily in the Virunga National Park, which was founded in 1925 and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

Virunga is home to about 200 of the last 700 mountain gorillas on Earth. The gorillas live on the eastern edge of the Park, near the border with Rwanda. Their survival is threatened by habitat loss due to expanding human populations, illegal charcoal production, poaching and civil conflict in the southern half of the Park.

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