every day, rangers s show visits around volcanoes national park, where they can observe the monkeys in the wild and photograph them. golden monkeys are endangered. their habitat is shrinking rapidly, so conservationists are especially keen to preserve this forest. placide: involving local people, first of all, is one of the key elements we need to make sure that they are happy with the park. first of all, it helps for avoiding poaching problems. we have had many people used to go there for cutting trees like bamboo. these bamboo trees can be used for handicrafts. reporter: fast-growing eucalyptus trees have crowded out indigenous vegetation all over the park. the rwandan environment management authority, rema, says 80% of all households in the country use wood for cooking fuel. claudine nyirambabazi gets off to an early start on her long walk to where she collects wood. by the time she gets home, she'll be tired and her back will ache. she can no longer carry so much wood now that she has had a baby. so instead, claudine frequently buys wood. cooking g on a traditional three-stone fire

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national park, a beautiful national park in hawaii. the other national park is 5,000 overflights a year. now, that's no way to run a national park. passed a law in 2000, the national park air tour management act which was nps and to require the f.a.a. to set up specific air tour management plans for each of our national parks with over 50 overflights which is many of them to include the grand canyon national park. those overflights were supposed to get back to the purpose of creating a pristine environment, at least have people have some peace and quiet. yet none of them has ever been adopted. 18, 19 years later, and this has been a real problem for me and many others. reports are that the tour helicopter companies are now trying to weaken some of the regulations that are in effect for parks such as the grand canyon. can you tell me whether the resources are being dedicated in any way shape or form at this point to implementing this 19-year-old law and if so kind of where do we go? >> congressman, thank you for your question. i'm aware

in hawaii volcano national park right now. the latest stats that we know for an annualized basis, shows host to 16,500 overflights of hawaii volcano national park, a beautiful beautiful national park, in hawaii. the national park, our other national park, gets 5000 overflights. a year. no, that is no way to run a national park. we passed a law in 2000, the national parks air tour management act, which was supposed to require the nps, and the faa, to set up specific air tour management plans for each of our national parks with over 50 overflights, which is many of them to include the grand canyon, a national park. and, those overflights were supposed to get back to the purpose of creating a pristine environment, at least, having people have some peace and quiet international parks, and yet those plans, none of them has ever been adopted, 18 years later, 19 at this point, and this has been a real real problem, for me, and many others, reports are that the touring helicopter companies are now trying to weaken some of the regulati

and it is incompatible to be hiking at volcano national park with 52 helicopters going over my head throughout the day. that is what is happening right now. the latest that we know show close to 16500 overflights. that is no way to run a national park. so the air tour management act which is to require the faa to set up specific management plans for each of the management plans that includes the grand canyon national park , those overflights were to be back to the purpose to create a pristine environment but yet none of those have ever been adopted. and this has been a real problem so the reports are now they try to weaken some of the regulations such as the grand canyon so can you tell me if the resources are dedicated to implement this 19 year old law and where do we go quick. >> thank you for your question. i am aware of the issues i have been briefed over the last couple of weeks. i'm aware at the grand canyon paraguay had some workings on that years ago. it is that coordination with faa there is now a lawsuit and that is why we will try to address this issue. it is a legitimate

national park and have 50 helicopters going over my head throughout the day. and that is happening in the volcano park right now, the latest that we know for an annualized basis show close to 16,500 overflights of that national park, abeautiful national park in hawaii . other national parks its 5000 overflights a year. that's no way to run a national park. we passed a law in 2000, the national park air tour management act which was supposed to require the mps and faa to set up a specific air tour management plans for each of our national parks over 50 overflights which is many of them to include the grand canyonnational park . and those overflights were supposed to get back to the purpose of creating a pristine environment and having people have peace and quiet in our national parks and yet none of them has ever been adopted, 18 years later, 19 at this point and this had been a real problem for me and for many others. reports are the helicopter companies are trying to weaken some of the regulations that are in effect for other national parks such as the grandc