Gishwati cloud forest coffee is grown 60km from the unique ecological hotspot that is virunga park and is home to a quarter of the worlds last mountain gorillas and other endangered zebra looking okapi gishwati use to host a big number different species of primates such as chimpanzees and golden monkeys however during the genocide displaced refugees cleared it for subsistence farming deforestation was so intensive that by 2001 only 6km of native gishwati forest remained the coffee rewards