Great Virunga Transboundary Collaboration
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Mar 03 2009 | By: paula
Something very exciting is happening in the Virunga region. An ‘Inter-State agency’ is being created to coordinate conservation in the Virunga volcanoes called The ‘Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC)‘. The agency formalizes the ongoing collaboration between the three countries that share the Virungas, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda .
The GVTC’s will work to conserve, manage environmental resources and promote tourism in protected areas of the three countries especially the Virunga Park, which is home to hundreds of the only surviving mountain gorillas in the world. Administration of this agency will be vested in the Inter-Ministerial board, the Trans-boundary Core Secretariat and its affairs directly managed under an Executive Secretariat based in Rwanda.
With this new development, environmental management, law enforcement, gorilla census and tourism will be coordinated across the transboundary region.
We offer our heart felt congratulations to the ministers of the three countries and wish well in getting this initiative off the ground.
Tags: Congo, DR Congo, Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration, ICCN, Mountain Gorillas, ORTPN, Rwanda, Uganda, UWA, Virunga
New Gorilla Trekking site in Uganda
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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