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Going Viral: IGCP Launches New Interactive Website

Unveiling a new era for communicating its work to practitioners and the public alike, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) has announced an entirely new website, which goes “live” on Tuesday, August 25th.  Opening during the UN Convention on Migratory Species designated Year of the Gorilla, the... Read more »

Gorillas Believed To Be Safe As National Park Fire Extinguished

The Rwanda National Park Service, local authorities, community members, police and a cadre of soldiers are battling a fire in Volcanoes National Park accidentally set by a local beekeeper. The fire started when Serugendo Faustin set down an implement used to drive away bees. On Saturday morning July 18th, Faustin... Read more »

Increase in DRC Habituated Mountain Gorilla Population

IGCP has played an integral role in a recently completed survey of the habituated gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, which revealed that despite continued conflict in and around the Park, the habituated gorilla population has actually increased in the past two years. With support... Read more »

Mysterious Gorilla Death in Bwindi Under Investigation

An adult female gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda has died under mysterious circumstances. The female, named Kasongo, was from the Mubare gorilla family, which is habituated and visited by tourists. On the evening of March 6th, Kasongo was found dead on public land near the Bwindi Park headquarters... Read more »

Gorillas Likely to Get a Boost as Rangers Return

Gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park have been given a boost as up to 70 rangers have returned to their posts, with the intention of resuming monitoring activities. The rangers were forced to flee in October 2008 when intense fighting in the area’s civil conflict broke out, leading... Read more »

IGCP Provides Emergency Funding in Congo for Gorilla Protection

IGCP has recently provided upwards of $50,000 to the Congolese national park authority to help ensure mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park are protected from the ravages of war. The complex conflict in the Congo, which has been simmering for years, recently erupted... Read more »

Fighting in the Congo Rages While IGCP Moves to Protect Park Rangers

In a renewed flurry of fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the army of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has seized the important Congolese army camp of Rumangabo on the border with Virunga National Park, leading to the evacuation of rangers who protect the gorillas. This latest flare up of tensions... Read more »

Baby Gorilla Seized from Traffickers

A two year old female Eastern Lowland Gorilla has been seized from traffickers in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC park authority (ICCN: Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation), arrested the traffickers and seized the gorilla at Goma airport. Goma is the main city and regional gateway next to... Read more »

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  • Job Openings Within IGCP

    Job Openings Within IGCP

    The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) invites applications for two new job openings: Conservation Incentives Officer and Conservation Incentives Coordinator. Job descriptions are below. Please read the...

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    Working With the Batwa of Uganda

    Working With the Batwa of Uganda

    For more than 40,000 years the Batwa people lived in the rich montane forests of western Uganda. Theirs was a way of life that predated farming and livestock-keeping; the Batwa, or Pygmies, were hunter-gatherers who...

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    14 Baby Gorillas Named in Ceremony

    14 Baby Gorillas Named in Ceremony

    Earlier this month, 14 mountain gorillas were named during the 6th annual gorilla naming ceremony, Kwita Izina. With the entire mountain gorilla population critically low at approximately 680 individuals, each birth is...

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    Eugène Named Rwanda’s Conservation King by CNN

    Eugène Named Rwanda’s Conservation King by CNN

    We at IGCP are thrilled to announce that our very own Eugène Rutagarama is being featured on CNN’s African Voices. Recipient of the Jean Paul Getty Prize in 1996, the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, and...

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  • A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

    A Volcanic Ten Days Tracking Gorillas

    This is Augustin Basabose, IGCP Conservation Coordinator. The ten days I recently spent counting the legendary mountain gorillas of the Virunga Massif was an experiment in patience, perseverance and discovery. The last...

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    Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

    Death of Mountain Gorillas in Research Groups in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

    KIGALI, RWANDA-- The International Gorilla Conservation Program has just learned that one mother gorilla and three infant mountain gorillas have died in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, home to an estimated 380 of...

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    The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

    The 2010 Mountain Gorilla Census in Virunga Massif: The Camp Experience of team 1 and 2.

    Monday the 1st of March 2010, the first camp of gorilla trackers was established at Mutura, on the western end of the Virunga Massif on the Rwandan side. The camp was installed on the slopes of Mt. Karisimbi which is...

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    Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

    Living the 2010 Gorilla Census Experience In Team 2

    From March 1st to April 27th, 2010; there has been a mountain gorilla census in the Virunga Massif. Mountain gorillas are a critically endangered Great Ape species that remained unknown to the Western world until...

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