The Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda forms a cross border conservation area with Congo’s Virunga National Park and Mgahinga National Park in Uganda to create a protected habitat for the last of the endangered mountain gorillas. It is Africa’s oldest national park, formed in 1925. The park is dominated by six extinct volcanoes whose slopes are covered by a range of different habitats from bamboo forests to heath and montane forests. This is the perfect habitat for the mountain gorilla, as well as rare mountain elephant, forest hogs, buffalo, spotted hyena and golden monkeys.