Job Announcement: IGCP Director
JOB ADVERTISEMENT: INTERNATIONAL GORILLA CONSERVATION PROGRAMME DIRECTOR The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) was launched in 1991 as a joint collaboration of its founding Coalition Members (CM), the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna & Flora International (FFI), and WWF. This unique... Read more »
Daily info gathering by rangers feeds park planning
Data crunching. It's not very glamorous, but it is vitally important to the conservation of the critically-endangered mountain gorillas. Up-to-date, relevant and timely information is an essential prerequisite which enables managers of protected areas to make informed decisions, to monitor and evaluate, and to... Read more »
Nose prints and mountain gorilla know-how
All gorillas are just as physically and genetically different as you are from your neighbor. To know these differences helps to monitor mountain gorilla population demographic changes and health status of habituated gorillas. Knowing the identities of all individual gorillas in the habituated groups and... Read more »
Back to the business of mountain gorilla monitoring
Monitoring the location and health of habituated mountain gorillas is something, under ideal circumstances, that happens every day. Unfortunately, the conditions in different parts of the Virunga Massif have been far from ideal for a good part of this year. In the Democratic Republic of Congo side of the Virunga... Read more »
A long and weary week
It has been almost nine months of renewed insecurity in North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which includes the area where IGCP works alongside Virunga National Park for the conservation of the park's mountain gorillas. However, this week, that insecurity - in the form of outright armed battle -... Read more »
Concern remains for the mountain gorillas and people of Virunga National Park, DRC
The status of Virunga National Park's mountain gorillas remains unknown as rebels continue to occupy the park's gorilla sector. It has been since May that M23 rebels - also referred to as the Congolese Revolutionary Army - have occupied the Mikeno Sector of Virunga National Park, the park's gorilla sector. The... Read more »
Population of mountain gorillas in Bwindi determined by census
A census of mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei, conducted in 2011 in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, confirms a minimum population of 400 gorillas, raising the total world population of mountain gorillas to 880. The official result was released today by the Uganda Minister for Tourism, Wildlife,... Read more »
Crash course on Mountain Gorillas
Know the difference between 'wild', 'habituated', 'non-habituated', and 'captive' mountain gorillas? Read through these mountain gorilla facts and figures to make yourself a mountain gorilla expert. Scientific name: Gorilla beringei beringei Found in: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda Status:... Read more »
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