International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP)

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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