Field Journal: Living the Bwindi Census
In what may be our longest blog post ever, here we present in its near entirety the field journal for Charles KAYIJAMAHE (pictured, right, during the... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: The first uncharted steps
A few weeks ago, the first ever regional forum for the Greater Virunga landscape was held in Kampala, Uganda. The forum was the collection of actors... Read more »
Second phase of the on-going Bwindi mountain gorilla census is complete
IGCP's species coordinator, Dr. Augustin Basabose is back to his base in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo after being part of the final training... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: Nkuringo- Redefining management of land and tourism benefits to conserve mountain gorillas
Some of you may have seen the Nkuringo region of Bwindi recently profiled on the second episode of Earthrise, a series produced by Al Jazeera... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: Reflection on Post-Genocide Conservation in Rwanda ’95-‘97
This post was written by Katie Frohardt (pictured above), IGCP's Rwanda Director from mid-1995 until mid-1997. This reflection was written in honor... Read more »
Post Conflict Conservation: A student’s perspective
How can you justify conserving a wildlife species while there are people suffering? This is just one of the questions that Richard Milburn faced from... Read more »
Cleaning Volcanoes National Park: Removing remnants from the past
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
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
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 »
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