The most important natural, wooded massifs are those that still cover a section of the sides of the Virunga or certain areas of the mountains notably the Gishwati and Nyngwe forests.
Currently in Rwanda natural vegetation barely covers 15% of the surface of the country. The fields, pastures, fallow and uncultivated lands occupy the other 85%. The lands least suited to agriculture have been reforested with eucalyptus to be used as firewood.
