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The goal of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) is to ensure the conservation of mountain gorillas and their regional afromontane forest habitat in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Read more »
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Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census
The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga Volcanoes area that straddles the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda in Eastern and Central Africa. The Virunga Volcanoes is one of only two locations where mountain gorillas live, whose total numbers are currently estimated at 680... Read more »
Building a Future in Bukima
Goma bustles. Goma hustles. Goma tussles with poverty and the effects of a devastating decade plus war in this resource rich sector of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose dying flame stubbornly refuses to be snuffed out completely. I am back here to check on the progress of IGCP’s conservation efforts in and around Virunga National Park since the withdrawal of rebel armies a year ago, and the... Read more »
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