the forest is located in the mountains with an altitude between 1600 and 2950 m and contains many species of plants and animals it consists mainly of birds and monkeys according to wikipedia the nyungwe table forest is one of rwandas water reservoirs it provides about 60 of rwandas water and the source of the nile river is in the forest nyungwe park is filled with a variety of plants a forest consisting of more than 200 species of trees and a variety of flowering trees including lobelia and other colorful ones the number of rwandans visiting nyungwe park is increasing due to the fact that a canopy walk has been built in nyungwe park where you can see the entire forest as announced by nyungwe park management the temple is built 50 meters from the ground which is 150 meters high it is the first in east africa and the 3rd in africa after ghana and south africa this theme allows visitors to the park to look at it from above so it helps to keep an eye on other birds and monkeys that live in the forest this forest is home to about 300 species of birds rare birds are found in nyungwe including the great blue bird called turaco delicate blue red and green birds that move from tree to tree like a pattern of hummingbirds in nyungwe park there are more than 10 species of monkeys that live peacefully throughout the park some of the monkey species that live in this forest can be visited by tourists while others are not these monkeys attract many tourists because there are some of these species of monkeys that cannot be found anywhere else on the african continent except in rwanda the list published in the nyungwe parks science museum in uwinka shows some of the monkey species living in the nyungwe park are the monkey cercopithecus lhoesti the monkey colobus angolensis ruwenzori the monkey cercopithecus ruwenzori mitis doggetti kandti tortoises pan troglodytes schweinfurtii cercopithecus ascanius schmidti cercopithecus aethiops cercopithecus albigena johnostonii eastern galagos lesser and greater galagos and igitaras in the nyungwe forest you will find 1250 species of plants including 50 species of shrubs 133 species of orchids and 24 traditional species emmanuel nshimiyimana