Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Virunga National Park (Cercopithecus kandti), recorded as Endangered
Virunga National Park (Cercopithecus kandti). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Virunga National Park

Cercopithecus kandti

Virunga National Park is a national park in the Albertine Rift Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Cercopithecus kandti
CITES
Appendix II
Taxonomy
Mammalia · Primates · Cercopithecidae · Cercopithecus

The Old World monkey

Virunga National Park, also called Bamboo Guenon, is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Cercopithecus kandti.

Range and habitat

In elevation, it ranges from 680 m (2,230 ft) in the Semliki River valley to 5,109 m (16,762 ft) in the Rwenzori Mountains. It is bounded to the north by the Puemba River and to the south by Tchegera Island in Lake Kivu. More than 3,000 faunal and floral species have been recorded, of that more than 300 are endemic to the Albertine Rift among them eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) and golden monkey.

GBIF currently lists 20 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Virunga National Park is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Virunga National Park, Wikidata item Q775343 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

Same genus

Photograph of Roloway monkey (Cercopithecus roloway), recorded as Critically EndangeredCR

Roloway monkey

Cercopithecus roloway
Photograph of Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana), recorded as EndangeredEN

Diana monkey

Cercopithecus diana
Photograph of Sclater's guenon (Cercopithecus sclateri), recorded as EndangeredEN

Sclater's guenon

Cercopithecus sclateri
Photograph of White-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), recorded as EndangeredEN

White-throated guenon

Cercopithecus erythrogaster

Quick answers

What is Virunga National Park?
Virunga National Park is a national park in the Albertine Rift Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 3,000 faunal and floral species have been recorded, of that more than 300 are endemic to the Albertine Rift among them eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) and golden monkey.
What is the conservation status of Virunga National Park?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Cercopithecus kandti. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Virunga National Park live?
In elevation, it ranges from 680 m (2,230 ft) in the Semliki River valley to 5,109 m (16,762 ft) in the Rwenzori Mountains.
Why is Virunga National Park in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Cercopithecus kandti?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Virunga National Park a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.