Part of the Atlas Mountain Range, the Moroccan Toubkal is the highest mountain in North Africa at a staggering 4,167 metres, making it visible from the city of Marrakech.

Famed as the home of the breathtaking Rift Valley, which runs through 12 countries, East Africa presents boundless opportunities for mountain trekking and highland climbing. From gentle hill walks ...

In East Africa, mountain gorillas and a new paradigm for wildlife travel April 23, 2021 More than 4 years ago Mount Muhabura, one of the eight Virunga volcanoes, viewed from Lake Mutanda in Uganda.

Mountains become islands: Ecological dangers of increasing land use in East Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 03 / 180314092807.htm ...

Glaciers on Mounts Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Rwenzori could disappear by the 2040s, scientists warn. Loss of these glaciers poses a significant threat to life, agriculture, hydropower generation ...

New studies published this month in the scientific journal Biological Conservation document an amazing concentration of over 1000 species unique -- or endemic -- to an area slightly larger than ...

The growth of East Africa's high topography during the past 30 million years cannot be explained by typical mountain-building processes. Numerical modelling shows that much of this topography ...

There are about a thousand mountain gorillas remaining on Earth, and about half live in the forests of the Virunga mountains in central Africa. Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of eastern ...

According to the results of a census released last week, the mountain gorilla population in East Africa’s Virunga Mountains numbered 604 as of June 2016, up from from 480 in 2010.