Posted in Jan, 2011

Network of automatic weather stations established in mountain gorilla habitat

Network of automatic weather stations established in mountain gorilla habitat

31 Jan 2011. posted by IGCP

During the last two months, I have been visiting different areas throughout the region to locate, in collaboration with park authorities, sites... Read more »

Vivid photography by Mattias Klum

Vivid photography by Mattias Klum

14 Jan 2011. posted by IGCP

National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum joined the census teams during the 2010 census of the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Massif and has... Read more »

Pariki Yacu: Rwandan students trek mountain gorillas

Pariki Yacu: Rwandan students trek mountain gorillas

05 Jan 2011. posted by Anna Behm Masozera

This is Anna Behm Masozera writing my first personal blog post as communications officer for the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. In... Read more »

Biodiversity, Education and Conservation: IGCP as case study

Biodiversity, Education and Conservation: IGCP as case study

03 Jan 2011. posted by eugene

The following is a speech given by IGCP's Director, Eugène Rutagarama, on December 16, 2010 by invitation from the Rwandan Ministry of Education and... Read more »

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    Job Announcement: IGCP Director

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    Daily info gathering by rangers feeds park planning

    Daily info gathering by rangers feeds park planning

    Data crunching. It's not very glamorous, but it is vitally important to the conservation of the critically-endangered mountain gorillas. Up-to-date, relevant and timely information is an essential prerequisite which...

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    Nose prints and mountain gorilla know-how

    Nose prints and mountain gorilla know-how

    All gorillas are just as physically and genetically different as you are from your neighbor. To know these differences helps to monitor mountain gorilla population demographic changes and health status of habituated...

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    Back to the business of mountain gorilla monitoring

    Back to the business of mountain gorilla monitoring

    Monitoring the location and health of habituated mountain gorillas is something, under ideal circumstances, that happens every day. Unfortunately, the conditions in different parts of the Virunga Massif have been far...

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  • A long and weary week

    A long and weary week

    It has been almost nine months of renewed insecurity in North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes the area where IGCP works alongside Virunga National Park for the conservation of the...

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    Concern remains for the mountain gorillas and people of Virunga National Park, DRC

    Concern remains for the mountain gorillas and people of Virunga National Park, DRC

    The status of Virunga National Park's mountain gorillas remains unknown as rebels continue to occupy the park's gorilla sector. It has been since May that M23 rebels - also referred to as the Congolese Revolutionary...

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    Population of mountain gorillas in Bwindi determined by census

    Population of mountain gorillas in Bwindi determined by census

    A census of mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei, conducted in 2011 in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, confirms a minimum population of 400 gorillas, raising the total world population of mountain...

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    Crash course on Mountain Gorillas

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    Know the difference between 'wild', 'habituated', 'non-habituated', and 'captive' mountain gorillas? Read through these mountain gorilla facts and figures to make yourself a mountain gorilla expert. Scientific name:...

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