Mar 20 2007
Getting to Camp Karema - the trials and tribulations
We are making progress on setting up Camp Karema at the Bukima patrol post. It takes about 3 hours to get there from Goma, on a pretty rough road, and then a very rough road. Some would call it a track. It is not uncommon to have more than one puncture on any one journey, and if you have shakey bones I would not even attempt it!
This was when the tents and beds were being taken up to Camp Karema from Goma. This was done with Rob Muir, from Frankfurt Zoological Society. At this point the truck is stuck and the white FZS vehicle is trying to squeeze past.
Then the truck got completely stuck and tried turning round.
At least it managed that… and then we had to carry everything that last stretch!
Technorati : bukima, congo, drc, iccn, mikeno, mountain gorilla, wildlifedirect
Daily news from the conservation frontline by Innocent and Diddy, and other Congolese rangers risking their lives to save mountain gorillas of the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
This is such good progress for the rangers and the wildlife. I am hoping that the rangers have the means to protect themselves from the ones who wish to destroy what accomplishments they have acheived. I hope for the rangers and the gorillas a calm peace comes…FOREVER…Good Luck to all.
[…] The trials and tribulations of getting to Camp Karema, “We are making progress on setting up Camp Karema at the Bukima patrol post. It takes about 3 hours to get there from Goma, on a pretty rough road, and then a very rough road. Some would call it a track. It is not uncommon to have more than one puncture on any one journey, and if you have shakey bones I would not even attempt it!” Ndesanjo Macha […]