Gorilla.cd – a new website for Virunga and Mountain Gorillas

Category: Uncategorized
Date: September 30th 2008
By: rumangaboyouth

Virunga National Park – its Rangers, Mountain Gorillas, and other wildlife – has a new website.

Please go to www.gorilla.cd or click on the picture links below. Meet the Virunga team – and join the Virunga team in the fight to protect the park and the last remaining mountain gorillas!

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You of course already know our new logo!

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From all the Team at Gorilla.cd and Virunga National Park – please leave comments on the new site and let us know what you think!

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12 Comments

  1. Virginia
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 7:30 am | Permalink

    It looks absolutely FANTASTIC!!!!! Now we can read even more stories from the field, gorillas and rangers. It is soooo clean and clear and easy to navigate, wow guy, well done!!!!!!!!

  2. Christine C.
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 8:20 am | Permalink

    Hey there…I am just wondering…if we were already making a
    monthly doantion to this blog, does it transfer with the new website?
    I didn’t realize that the donate buttons had actaully been taken off this blog…were our monthly donations getting through, or were
    they stopped?

  3. gorilla
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 9:48 am | Permalink

    Dear Christine – your monthly donation through this site will continue to go through WildlifeDirect and will continue to reach the Rangers on the ground. So no problem there at all. The idea of the new site is to provide a wealth of new information (as you can see) on Virunga and to allow people to participate more. Very good question however and thank you for that – I shall make sure this is clear.

  4. gorilla
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 9:49 am | Permalink

    And Christine that was me, Samantha, by the way who left that last comment!

  5. Iris
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 11:35 am | Permalink

    CONGRATULATIONS! Gorilla.cd is very attractive, easy to navigate and informative! I had a wonderful time reading the team’s profiles: so many fascinating stories… Great videos and photos! The Virunga team has my respect, admiration and affection. Good luck with your new venture and bon courage in these difficult political times.
    Iris

  6. Christine C.
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 11:40 am | Permalink

    Hi Sam!!! The web site really does look terrific…had not had a chance to fully navigate it yet, but so far so good :) You must be
    so pleased! And thanks for the quick response to my question,
    one less paypal change I need to deal with lol!

  7. sheryl, washington, dc
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    The new site looks great! The only thing I can’t make work is my login for My Virunga. I keep getting bounced to some crazy domain name for sale page.

    Love all the bios, too. Awesome.

    s.

  8. Samantha
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 4:29 pm | Permalink

    Hi Sheryl,
    Sam here. First you join the site, which generates a login and password and then you hit My Virunga to login with those details. If for some reason something is not coming up try refreshing your page. In Firefox it works if you do control, shift and R. In Internet Explorer you should do Control, Alt and Delete and then close IE there and then reopen again. Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks, Sam

  9. Christie
    Posted September 30, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Permalink

    Fantastic new site, love the layout. One more source of
    information, bravo!

  10. Annie
    Posted October 2, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

    Great site………..awesome work! You guys work so hard! God bless!!!!!!!

  11. Samantha
    Posted October 3, 2008 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Hi guys… I just wanted to explain to those who were wondering why the historic blog content has been taken off here and moved to the new blog at http://www.gorilla.cd. Basically – in a nutshell – we imported the old blog content into http://www.gorilla.cd but hid it from Google. You cannot duplicate content on Google because Google spiders pick this up and punish both sites for it by affecting their visibility on the web. About 87% of Internet users use Google as their search engine. So – while we hid the content from Google, we were not successful in hiding the aggregate pages, which are categories, archives etc. And Google then picked up the whole lot. So we had to react quickly and take the content off this site so that http://www.gorilla.cd would not be punished and rendered invisible. We are already starting from the bottom with .cd in our url – as it is simply not known. (Congo Democratique!) So anyway – I just wanted to explain that to you all and I hope that is clear. If you have any questions please let me know. I hope you are all enjoying the new site – the intention is very much to create a global online community of people who support Virunga and the mountain gorillas. Wherever you are you can join! Very best, and see you on http://www.gorilla.cd – Samantha

  12. Mutakirwa Alexis
    Posted October 4, 2008 at 4:33 am | Permalink

    Uncredible site…
    Hope to be in touch with you:Dr Dieter Steklis, former Chief DFGFI.Wooii
    Would you please send me your mailing adresse details again.