Documenting the Families of Volcanoes National Park
The puffy white clouds were morphing to gray as we stood in front Sabyinyo Volcano’s knotty peaks. As they are want to do, they started creeping towards the mountain’s spine. I knew that in an hour or two they would swallow the peaks whole, then spread again, likely depositing big fat raindrops on forest and... Read more »
Employment Opportunity with IGCP: Communications Officer
The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) invites applications for the post of Communications Officer, who will partner with IGCP staff to create and manage communications and media activities. The International Gorilla Conservation Programme is a coalition of African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Fauna... Read more »
Groundbreaking Gathering Seeks to Probe the Impacts of Climate Change on the Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla
12 February 2010 - How is climate change impacting the mountain gorilla and its conservation? This question will be investigated in the first organized workshop focusing specifically on the relationship between the highly endangered mountain gorilla, with a remaining estimated population of only 680, and climate... Read more »
Trekking at the Intersection of Climate Change and Gorilla Conservation
The sense of stillness, clarity and peace are overwhelming as we approach the Gikeri patrol post. Fat fields of beans, cabbage and sweet potatoes stretch out in all directions, invoking a green carpet of bounty that seems to unroll all the way to the horizon. Earthen huts stand stoic with waving kids under waxy... Read more »
Highly Endangered Mountain Gorilla to Get Counted in Vital Census
The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga Volcanoes area that straddles the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda in Eastern and Central Africa. The Virunga Volcanoes is one of... Read more »
Building a Future in Bukima
Goma bustles. Goma hustles. Goma tussles with poverty and the effects of a devastating decade plus war in this resource rich sector of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose dying flame stubbornly refuses to be snuffed out completely. I am back here to check on the progress of IGCP’s conservation... Read more »
Walking Under the Volcanoes’ Shadow with the Batwa
The moss drips from the trees surrounding the camp in a filigree of light and delicate wisps of the bright green and earthy chocolates of the rainforest. We sit on a bamboo bench with the smoking shacks in front of us looking like they are being swallowed by the forest’s creeping wildness. The twisted tree... Read more »
Twins! A Baby! A Community on the Move!
Wobbling down what seems like an endless descent from the lofty perches of Nkuringo Ridge, the village of Kahurire in the patchwork of green hollows below looks tiny no matter how close we get to it, like a scattering of child’s playhouses neatly arranged in neighbor friendly concentric circles. The ragged leaves... Read more »
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