Job Announcement: IGCP Director

Job Announcement: IGCP Director

JOB ADVERTISEMENT: INTERNATIONAL GORILLA CONSERVATION PROGRAMME DIRECTOR The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) was launched in 1991 as a joint collaboration of its founding Coalition Members (CM), the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna & Flora International (FFI), and WWF. This unique partnership was formed to better... Read more »

Job Announcement: IGCP Director

Job Announcement: IGCP Director

JOB ADVERTISEMENT: INTERNATIONAL GORILLA CONSERVATION PROGRAMME DIRECTOR The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) was launched in... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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,... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

Crash course on Mountain Gorillas

Crash course on Mountain Gorillas

Know the difference between 'wild', 'habituated', 'non-habituated', and 'captive' mountain gorillas? Read through these mountain gorilla facts and... Read more »

Rainwater harvesting experts on all sides of the Virunga Massif

Rainwater harvesting experts on all sides of the Virunga Massif

Here's another story of people from different sides of the border working together to help their communities and reduce pressure on the Virunga... Read more »