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Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census

Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census

08 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga... Read more »

Building a Future in Bukima

Building a Future in Bukima

04 Feb 2010. posted by Jamie Kemsey

Goma bustles.  Goma hustles.  Goma tussles with poverty and the effects of a devastating decade plus war in this resource rich sector of Eastern... Read more »

The Dividends of Peace in a Stunning Landscape

The Dividends of Peace in a Stunning Landscape

27 Oct 2009. posted by Jamie Kemsey

All we had to do was follow the dung.  It was fresh, and we found piles of it about every 100 meters.  A pile here under the crowded bamboo stands,... Read more »

My first field visit after the war

My first field visit after the war

01 Jun 2009. posted by wellard

Hi, everybody! I am Wellard Makambo. Makambo means “issues or words” in my mother tongue. Fortunately I don’t have many issues in my life at... Read more »

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  • Job Openings Within IGCP

    Job Openings Within IGCP

    The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) invites applications for two new job openings: Conservation Incentives Officer and Conservation Incentives Coordinator. Job descriptions are below. Please read the...

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    Working With the Batwa of Uganda

    Working With the Batwa of Uganda

    For more than 40,000 years the Batwa people lived in the rich montane forests of western Uganda. Theirs was a way of life that predated farming and livestock-keeping; the Batwa, or Pygmies, were hunter-gatherers who...

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    14 Baby Gorillas Named in Ceremony

    14 Baby Gorillas Named in Ceremony

    Earlier this month, 14 mountain gorillas were named during the 6th annual gorilla naming ceremony, Kwita Izina. With the entire mountain gorilla population critically low at approximately 680 individuals, each birth is...

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    Eugène Named Rwanda’s Conservation King by CNN

    Eugène Named Rwanda’s Conservation King by CNN

    We at IGCP are thrilled to announce that our very own Eugène Rutagarama is being featured on CNN’s African Voices. Recipient of the Jean Paul Getty Prize in 1996, the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, and...

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  • A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

    A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

    This is Augustin Basabose, IGCP Conservation Coordinator. The ten days I recently spent counting the legendary mountain gorillas of the Virunga Massif was an experiment in patience, perseverance and discovery. The last...

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    Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

    Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

    KIGALI, RWANDA-- The International Gorilla Conservation Program has just learned that one mother gorilla and three infant mountain gorillas have died in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, home to an estimated 380 of...

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    The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

    The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

    Monday the 1st of March 2010, the first camp of gorilla trackers was established at Mutura, on the western end of the Virunga Massif on the Rwandan side. The camp was installed on the slopes of Mt. Karisimbi which is...

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    Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

    Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

    From March 1st to April 27th, 2010; there has been a mountain gorilla census in the Virunga Massif. Mountain gorillas are a critically endangered Great Ape species that remained unknown to the Western world until...

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