Posted in Sep, 2011

Cleaning Volcanoes National Park: Removing remnants from the past

Cleaning Volcanoes National Park: Removing remnants from the past

30 Sep 2011. posted by IGCP

Over a hundred sacks of trash- discarded tins of tomato paste, sacks, clothes, and more- were removed from Volcanoes National Park in just two days... Read more »

More than Counting Gorillas: The hidden value of a census

More than Counting Gorillas: The hidden value of a census

27 Sep 2011. posted by Anna Behm Masozera

Yes, a census is about getting the population numbers of mountain gorillas and their distributions within the forest. But what goes on in the course... Read more »

Sector I: A day with a mountain gorilla census team

Sector I: A day with a mountain gorilla census team

26 Sep 2011. posted by Anna Behm Masozera

We went out knowing that we were in the known territory of unhabituated groups of mountain gorillas as well as the recently habituated tourism group... Read more »

Just Born and Just Counted: Census of mountain gorillas in Bwindi continues

Just Born and Just Counted: Census of mountain gorillas in Bwindi continues

23 Sep 2011. posted by Anna Behm Masozera

Through the vegetation, meet the newest member of the Kyaguliro family group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Born to Tindamanyire on... Read more »

Counting of mountain gorilla nests and poo begins

Counting of mountain gorilla nests and poo begins

12 Sep 2011. posted by Anna Behm Masozera

The 2011 census of the mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda has begun, despite the rains. After a three-day training... Read more »

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