US conservationist groups boost Gishwati recovery

Government efforts to reclaim Gishwati forest from massive deforestation will be boosted by two US conservation groups; Great Ape Trust and Earthpark. Gishwati was initially the second-largest indigenous forest in Rwanda covering 100,000 hectares but last year, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released satellite imagery indicating that nearly 99.4 percent of the forest has been completely wiped out.