00:00Windy, impenetrable forest home to Uganda's mountain gorillas is one of only two places on earth where these critically endangered
00:09depths survive.
00:11Scientists are now turning to eDNA, a tool more commonly used in marine conservation to help track wildlife with far
00:20less disturbance.
00:22The key component of habitat conservation is ecological monitoring.
00:27So ecological monitoring plays a key role when it comes to species detection, monitoring, impact monitoring.
00:37So we have then selected eDNA as one of the new technology to come to bring new solutions
00:44and to complement existing methods and approaches which we are using in ecological monitoring.
00:51Volcano's national parks, steep ridges and thick vegetations often hide even the largest animals.
00:58The African Wildlife Foundation and the Rwandan government are now using the environmental DNA to build a national species inventory
01:05as biodiversity comes under pressure.
01:07Traditional tools like camera traps struggle in the rugged Virunga mountains, but eDNA, genetic material shared in soil or water,
01:16is proving a game changer.
01:18With one kit, you can assess multiple species, including amphibians, including small or large mammals, including birds and many others,
01:32which cannot be detected using any other existing traditional techniques.
01:41Researchers say combining all the new methods is essential and eDNA, though limited, could also help rangers anticipate poaching risks
01:50by showing where endangered species are present.
01:53Each species of animal has a very specific DNA region that we target. And that DNA region is the one
02:02we mostly target during the polymerase chain reaction, during the amplification.
02:10As Rwanda expands its conservation efforts, eDNA is giving scientists a sharper view of wildlife recovery, a powerful new tool
02:18revealing lifelong hidden in the mists.
02:22As Rwanda continues to be used to create a sustainable Entwicklung.
02:22The rwanda asks the
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