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 International Gorilla Conservation Programme Off Boulevard de l'Umuganda Opp. Parliament & Next to LeMigo Hotel P.O. Box 931, Kigali, RWANDA Telephone: +250 252 580 465 Email: info@igcp.org

United States of America

 African Wildlife Foundation 1400 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Suite 120 Washington, DC 20036, USA Telephone: +1 202 939 3333 Fax: +1 202 939 3332 Email: africanwildlife@awf.org

United Kingdom

 Fauna & Flora International Jupiter House 4th Floor, Station Road Cambridge, CB1 2JD, UK Telephone: + 44 (0) 1223 571000 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 461481 Email: africa@fauna-flora.org

Rest of the world

 WWF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme Office (ESARPO) 5th Floor of ACS Plaza Lenana Road No 1/1203 P.O. Box 62440, Nairobi, KENYA Telephone: +254 20 3877 355 Email: info@wwfesarpo.org
Latest news & posts
  • Rwanda increases the price of a mountain gorilla permit

    Rwanda increases the price of a mountain gorilla permit

    In an announcement made today, the Rwanda Development Board has raised the price of a permit issued to experience mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park from 500 USD to 750 USD for foreign nationals...

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    Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla

    Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla

    I’ll admit it, we all crave it, even those of us working in mountain gorilla conservation- direct physical contact with mountain gorillas. Katie Frohardt wrote about her impulse to touch a mountain gorilla in her...

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    IGCP Launches Rainwater Harvesting Campaign in DRC

    IGCP Launches Rainwater Harvesting Campaign in DRC

    Perusi Florence and her brother Tuyambaze will start the year 2012 with a burden relieved. They will no longer walk an hour to fetch water every morning. They will no longer have to pay 2,000 Uganda Shillings (the...

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    20 Years of IGCP: Humanism in wildlife conservation

    20 Years of IGCP: Humanism in wildlife conservation

    If I've learned anything in my short time with the multi-lingual IGCP it is that many things, like meaning and intent, can get lost in translation. That is why I am leaving this testimony by Paulin Wilondja-As-Ngobobo,...

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  • Putting Herself Out There: Harriet’s Bwindi experience

    Putting Herself Out There: Harriet’s Bwindi experience

    When we checked in on progress of the Bwindi census in September, we met Harriet Kyakyo, a volunteer with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the only woman participating in the census as a team member. She ended up...

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    From Virunga (Central Africa) to Ometepe Island (Central America), Part 1

    From Virunga (Central Africa) to Ometepe Island (Central America), Part 1

    Eugène Rutagarama here, Director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. And the first thing I should do is explain where 'here' is. I am writing these line sitting at the balcony of Punta Theonoste, a...

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    Integrated efforts in Enterprise, Environment and Equity

    Integrated efforts in Enterprise, Environment and Equity

    Fact: The plight of mountain gorillas cannot be separated from the plight of people. Human population densities in the mountain gorilla region can touch in some areas to 1,000 people per square kilometer (note, that's...

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    20 Years of IGCP: A Love Story – Twice Over

    20 Years of IGCP: A Love Story – Twice Over

    In this tribute to the 20 years of IGCP as a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and the World Wide Fund for Nature, Rebecca Lomax-Sumner describes a life-changing visit to...

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