{"id":87315,"date":"2024-12-26T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diwakatours.com\/akegera-national-park\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T20:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T20:31:02","slug":"akegera-national-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diwakatours.com\/en-ca\/rwanda-destinations\/akegera-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Akegera National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Akegera National Park<\/h2>\nAkagera is almost unrecognisable today compared to just 20 years ago when it was on the verge of being lost forever. While peace was finally restored in the 1990s after the 1994 Genocide, Akagera\u2019s demise was just beginning. Refugees returning to Rwanda after the genocide were still battling for their own survival and turned to the forests for timber, wildlife for protein and the wild savannas for their livestock. Lions were hunted to local extinction, rhinos disappeared, and the park\u2019s wildlife was displaced by tens of thousands of long-horned cattle. Biodiversity was practically lost, and with it so was employment and tourism. The park\u2019s value was virtually diminished, which makes its story of revival even more remarkable.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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