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 effective June 1, 2012, save for prior bookings made before this date. The rates for mountain gorilla... Read more »
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 reflection of her time with IGCP in the 1990s, “At one point when the snare had been removed, I... Read more »
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 currency of choice in this area of DRC equivalent to about 75 US cents) per month to collect water. They... Read more »
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, who was IGCP's Programme Officer in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2003 to 2006, in his... Read more »
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 spending a total of 4 weeks in Bwindi, with two weeks on, two weeks off, and another two weeks on. When I... Read more »
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 hotel located at the beach of the Pacific Ocean where the sound of ocean waves is mixing with the soft... Read more »
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 more than 2,500 people per square mile), and these people don't merely use this land for housing, but... Read more »
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 mountain gorillas in Rwanda in 1983. Her visit came during the years of the Mountain Gorilla Project, what... Read more »
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