Posted in Feb, 2010

Groundbreaking Gathering Seeks to Probe the Impacts of Climate Change on the Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla

Groundbreaking Gathering Seeks to Probe the Impacts of Climate Change on the Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla

10 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

12 February 2010 - How is climate change impacting the mountain gorilla and its conservation?  This question will be investigated in the first... Read more »

Trekking at the Intersection of Climate Change and Gorilla Conservation

Trekking at the Intersection of Climate Change and Gorilla Conservation

10 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

The sense of stillness, clarity and peace are overwhelming as we approach the Gikeri patrol post.  Fat fields of beans, cabbage and sweet potatoes... Read more »

Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census

Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census

08 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga... Read more »

Building a Future in Bukima

Building a Future in Bukima

04 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

Goma bustles.  Goma hustles.  Goma tussles with poverty and the effects of a devastating decade plus war in this resource rich sector of Eastern... Read more »

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  • Rwanda increases the price of a mountain gorilla permit

    Rwanda increases the price of a mountain gorilla permit

    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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    Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla

    Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla

    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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    IGCP Launches Rainwater Harvesting Campaign in DRC

    IGCP Launches Rainwater Harvesting Campaign in DRC

    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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    20 Years of IGCP: Humanism in wildlife conservation

    20 Years of IGCP: Humanism in wildlife conservation

    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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  • Putting Herself Out There: Harriet’s Bwindi experience

    Putting Herself Out There: Harriet’s Bwindi experience

    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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    From Virunga (Central Africa) to Ometepe Island (Central America), Part 1

    From Virunga (Central Africa) to Ometepe Island (Central America), Part 1

    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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    Integrated efforts in Enterprise, Environment and Equity

    Integrated efforts in Enterprise, Environment and Equity

    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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    20 Years of IGCP: A Love Story – Twice Over

    20 Years of IGCP: A Love Story – Twice Over

    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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