Posted in May, 2010

A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

20 May 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

This is Augustin Basabose, IGCP Conservation Coordinator. The ten days I recently spent counting the legendary mountain gorillas of the Virunga... Read more »

Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

19 May 2010. posted by eugene

KIGALI, RWANDA-- The International Gorilla Conservation Program has just learned that one mother gorilla and three infant mountain gorillas have died... Read more »

The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

18 May 2010. posted by Abel Musana

Monday the 1st of March 2010, the first camp of gorilla trackers was established at Mutura, on the western end of the Virunga Massif on the Rwandan... Read more »

Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

18 May 2010. posted by Abel Musana

From March 1st to April 27th, 2010; there has been a mountain gorilla census in the Virunga Massif. Mountain gorillas are a critically endangered... Read more »

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    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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    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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    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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    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

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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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