Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

So when the lockdown came, it hit hard the hand-to-mouth people than the people who had a little bit of savings.

These are the virtual people who Today, about 7,000 of them live around the protected areas of Ubundi and Mugahinga conservation areas.

These are forests that once were their homes.

But when conservation took a toll in the 1990s, then they were forced out of the forests to live in the communities which were already established and thriving faster than these people were used to before then.