20 Years of IGCP: Balancing the needs of both gorillas and people
As part of our ongoing series celebrating the 20th anniversary of IGCP as a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and the World Wide Fund for Nature, Anecto Kayitare, who spent nine years working with IGCP between 1999 to 2008, revisits his experience with the Susa group in... Read more »
Field Journal: Living the Bwindi Census
In what may be our longest blog post ever, here we present in its near entirety the field journal for Charles KAYIJAMAHE (pictured, right, during the census training), a student finishing his studies at the National University of Rwanda in Zoology and Conservation. The length is because it is impossible to cut out... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: The first uncharted steps
A few weeks ago, the first ever regional forum for the Greater Virunga landscape was held in Kampala, Uganda. The forum was the collection of actors at all levels, from civil society to national government, from conservation organizations to diplomatic missions which fund, manage, and coordinate conservation and... Read more »
Second phase of the on-going Bwindi mountain gorilla census is complete
IGCP's species coordinator, Dr. Augustin Basabose is back to his base in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo after being part of the final training session for the census of Bwindi, as well as getting Team 2 started on data collection for phase 2. Phase 2 completed last weekend, and now we're in the final stretch of... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: Nkuringo- Redefining management of land and tourism benefits to conserve mountain gorillas
Some of you may have seen the Nkuringo region of Bwindi recently profiled on the second episode of Earthrise, a series produced by Al Jazeera English. If you missed it, click here to watch the full episode. In this post as part of our series celebrating the 20 years of IGCP, Helga Rainer recounts and reflects on... Read more »
20 Years of IGCP: Reflection on Post-Genocide Conservation in Rwanda ’95-‘97
This post was written by Katie Frohardt (pictured above), IGCP's Rwanda Director from mid-1995 until mid-1997. This reflection was written in honor of IGCP’s 20th Anniversary this year, 2011. She is currently the Executive Director of Fauna & Flora International in the US and has served as the FFI... Read more »
Post Conflict Conservation: A student’s perspective
How can you justify conserving a wildlife species while there are people suffering? This is just one of the questions that Richard Milburn faced from others (and himself) as he set out to explore the role of conservation in a conflict or post conflict environment using the Virunga Massif as a case study. What follows... Read more »
Cleaning Volcanoes National Park: Removing remnants from the past
Over a hundred sacks of trash- discarded tins of tomato paste, sacks, clothes, and more- were removed from Volcanoes National Park in just two days of a renewed effort by IGCP to clean the park of waste and exotic plant species left by people. What follows is a post written by IGCP's Conservation Incentives Officer... Read more »
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