Sometime back, RDB started fencing off the Akagera national park from the farms in the neighboring communities that border the park. This is a joint venture partnership between of RDB Tourism and Conservation managing the national park and they expect the work to be completed by the end of March or early April 2013.

The idea of fencing off the park was seen as the only way to wipe out the problem of human – wildlife conflict which is so rampant in different part of country where there are parks. Putting up a fence is the only way to protect small scale farmers from buffalo and hippos that cross from the parks into their farm lands and destroy a lot of their crops, sometimes injure them and at times kill people with the most recent incident being only two weeks ago.

According to the latest, so far over 81 kilometers out of the 110 kilometer long fence are complete therefore about 30 Km is not yet done however the delay in the completion of fencing is as a result of the boundary issues with local communities which needed fresh demarcation and lengthy processes of community consultations which are now have been sorted out so says one of the sources from Kigali. Akagera is the only savannah national park in Rwanda that is situated in the East of the country offering a complete safari experience say after visiting the Parc de Volcanoes near Ruhengeri for the Mt gorilla tracking  or Nyungwe forest  in the South of the country.  You can always expect to have the best time ever.