Gorilla Protection

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 27 2009 | By: paula

Today we send out congratulations to Cameroon for establishing a new Gorilla Park. Deng Deng park is the size of Chicago and is hometo 600 western lowland gorillas. Lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN after populations crashed by more than 90% in recent years.

What a great way to start tGorillhe Year of the Gorilla

More information here

Tags: Cameroon, gorilla, gorilla park, Western Lowlan Gorilla, wildlifedirect

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 26 2009 | By: paula

Uganda is celebrating that a new gorilla trekking site will be opened in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park this April.  This is Uganda’s fourth gorilla site. Managed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), Rushaga in Kisoro District, is being opened to allow more tourists to visit their 300 mountain gorillas in this tiny national park in southwest Uganda.

Meanwhile in England “A LOCAL Conservative councillor has been suspended by his party following a row over an internet blog.

Cllr Bob Allen is being investigated by Bolton’s Tory leader Cllr John Walsh after he posted a picture of a gorilla next to a story about a fellow councillor on his personal online blog”.

The guy should have been honored!

Tags: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Mountain Gorillas, Uganda, UWA, wildlifedirect

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 17 2009 | By: paula

This is from an interesting article in Time

“Remarkable things are happening in eastern Congo. The Congolese army and the CNDP are working together to separate Hutu civilians from Interahamwe commanders, and already hundreds have been freed. According to one expert on the region: “For the first time, Rwandan and Congolese, Tutsi and Hutu are working together to begin the long road of ethnic reconciliation.”

Hard choices remain. Will Nkunda, for example, be extradited from Rwanda? Kabila has promised that Rwandan troops will be out of Congo by March, but every day that they stay — and the thrill of Nkunda’s capture recedes — it becomes more difficult politically for him to sustain his bold initiative. None of this will be easy”.

Tags: Eastern Congo, Mountain Gorillas, Nkunda

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 09 2009 | By: paula

With the Year of the Gorilla now well underway, you will be pleased to hear that we are about to start supporting a variety of important gorilla projects in collaboraiton with GRASP and the CMS.

The gorilla sound blog is about the western lowland gorillas in Mondika which is located on the border between the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, in the Djeke triangle. The blog is about the daily life of a group of western gorillas called Kingo & C, their ecology, sociality and vocal system. Salma and her team will share the life and problems of forest living with you.

Meet Mekome the Jealous one 

The Gorillasound blog aims to inspire interest in this magnificent species and support the research of their behavior while participating to the conservation efforts of the site where the research will take place. Western gorillas are the ape species we know less about, even if there are present in all the Zoos of our big cites. Habituating western gorillas to our presence and study their behavior in their natural habitat takes years and few places have succeeded until now. Sites like Mondika need to be supported by all of us! Please help Salma and her team to make a difference. Visit Gorillasound and leave a comment, tell your friends and make a donation!

Tags: Gorilla sound, gorillas, GRASP, Roberta Salma, western lowland gorillas, Year of the Gorilla

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