Akagera National Park is a protected area in eastern Rwanda covering 1,122 km2 (433 sq mi) along the international border with Tanzania.

The complex system of lakes and linking papyrus swamps makes up over a third of the park, which is the largest protected wetland in Eastern-Central Africa.

[3] In the years that followed, the entire population was killed by farmers who returned to Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and settled in the park.

Over the next 5 years a $10 million expenditure was carried out in the national park area, with financial help from the Howard Buffett Foundation.

[8] In May 2017, a joint operation by the Rwanda Development Board and African Parks saw the reintroduction of 18 Eastern black rhinoceroses from South Africa, which had been absent for 10 years.

[4][6] In June 2019, Akagera National Park received five eastern black rhinoceros from three zoos in Europe after a 30-hour journey; this relocation was the first of its kind.

[9][10] In November 2021, 30 white rhinoceros were successfully translocated to Akagera National Park from Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa, in the largest single rhinoceros translocation aimed to extend the species' range and create a new breeding stronghold in Rwanda.