Pariki Yacu: Rwandan students trek mountain gorillas
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
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 »
Patrol Posts: IGCP’s (Your) present to mountain gorilla conservation
IGCP has handed over patrol posts in Sarambwe Natural Reserve in DRC as well as in Nkuringo near Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. These... Read more »
The water tank is only part of what is needed
Last week, IGCP Director Eugène Rutagarama wrote about visiting the water tanks constructed around Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. This week we... Read more »
Water as a conduit to an imbere heza (better future)
When I was in primary school, I was living in southwest Rwanda in a rural village. Our house, like those of our neighbors, was thatched with straw... Read more »
IGCP coalition members react to good news in mountain gorilla conservation
The International Gorilla Conservation Programme is a unique coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna & Flora International... Read more »
Census confirms increase in population of the critically endangered Virunga mountain gorillas
The number on one of the world’s most charismatic and endangered species is in. The analysis of the census conducted in March and April 2010... Read more »
It takes a village… to stop a buffalo
Bodouine Byibesho has a sharp eye for construction. Mama Bodouine, as she is called, is the president of an “association of mamas” who work to... Read more »
Spreading the wealth from mountain gorillas
Having mountain gorillas in your backyard can, in many ways, be seen as a curse. They occasionally raid the gardens you depend on and work so hard to... Read more »
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