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Slide 15: The line of demarcation separating the advancing agricultural front and the forest preserve on the slopes of Visoke Volcano. This site is near the Karisoke entrance to the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Much of this parkland area was formerly within the native bamboo belt and was was converted to agriculture during the 1959-1979 period as part of a major Belgian-funded commercial pyrethrum-growing project. Landless farmers were resettled on these new lands in rectilinear plots or groupings called Paysannats. The rectilinear pattern is even observable from satellite images (see Tour IV Slides 7 and 8). To learn more go to the COTF module entitled Mountain Gorillas (NASA Classroom of the Future). Image credit: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and COTF |
