Gorilla Protection

Myself, my staff, my family are completely speechless at the level of support and encouragement that we have received from people all over the world.  We cannot thank you enough.  Until recently, we had neither phones, nor internet, and we couldn’t guess that people cared so much for our efforts to protect our wonderful wildlife.

 

I am planning to translate a selection of the comments into our language, Swahili, and will be posting them on the wall at the park headquarters at Rumangabo.  That way, our rangers will realise for the first time that they are absolutely not alone in their efforts to protect the gorillas.  It has been a terribly difficult journey for many of them, having to flee their homes during the recent fighting between rebels and government forces. 

 

Many of you sent money for the conservation effort.  We have started the emergency programme for the gorillas, that is now possible thanks to your contributions that now amount to just under 7000 dollars.  I will post on that later, and on exactly how the money is being used. 

 

With this blog, I believe that we have, together, launched a whole new way of protecting gorillas.  With that there is renewed hope, which barely existed three days ago.

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