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I wanted to share something with you that gives me hope. Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in our work and our own daily struggles and challenges that... Read more »
Last month we reported the death of an adult female gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. We’ve been carefully following up on... Read more »
In an announcement made today, the Rwanda Development Board has raised the price of a permit issued to experience mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park from 500 USD to 750 USD for foreign nationals...
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I’ll admit it, we all crave it, even those of us working in mountain gorilla conservation- direct physical contact with mountain gorillas. Katie Frohardt wrote about her impulse to touch a mountain gorilla in her...
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Perusi Florence and her brother Tuyambaze will start the year 2012 with a burden relieved. They will no longer walk an hour to fetch water every morning. They will no longer have to pay 2,000 Uganda Shillings (the...
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If I've learned anything in my short time with the multi-lingual IGCP it is that many things, like meaning and intent, can get lost in translation. That is why I am leaving this testimony by Paulin Wilondja-As-Ngobobo,...
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When we checked in on progress of the Bwindi census in September, we met Harriet Kyakyo, a volunteer with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the only woman participating in the census as a team member. She ended up...
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Eugène Rutagarama here, Director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. And the first thing I should do is explain where 'here' is. I am writing these line sitting at the balcony of Punta Theonoste, a...
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Fact: The plight of mountain gorillas cannot be separated from the plight of people. Human population densities in the mountain gorilla region can touch in some areas to 1,000 people per square kilometer (note, that's...
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In this tribute to the 20 years of IGCP as a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and the World Wide Fund for Nature, Rebecca Lomax-Sumner describes a life-changing visit to...
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