International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP)

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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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