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Bonn, 11 March 2010 – The plight of gorillas in danger was brought home to millions through hundreds of Year of the Gorilla articles, interviews, lectures, conferences and films last year – more than through any similar global species campaign. In addition, the UN Year of the Gorilla 2009, generated €100,000 for field projects to prevent critically endangered gorilla species […]
Do you remember the 1999 movie Office Space with Jennifer Aniston and Ron Livingston? It’s a favorite of mine and if you haven’t seen it, I’ll need to explain one of the plot lines in order to set up this blog post. Livingston plays Peter Gibbons, who works in an administrative role at a computer company called Initech. When his friends […]
At the epicenter of the long-running civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lies Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest national park in the border triangle of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is home to more than 200 of the only 720 Mountain Gorillas remaining in the world. Here, a small but dedicated force of […]
Unveiling a new era for communicating its work to practitioners and the public alike, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) has announced an entirely new website, www.igcp.org, which will go “live” on Tuesday, August 25th. Opening during the UN Convention on Migratory Species designated Year of the Gorilla, the new site promises greatly enhanced interactivity, a fresh new look and […]
They say a journey begins with a single step, and this one is no different, though it nearly didn’t happen. Having picked up some YoG posters and stickers from my tiny office in the English market town of Stroud, I shouldered my rucksack, picked up my camera-bag and walked to the station. It seemed odd exchanging greetings with people enjoying […]
When Jana Jirátová and her boss Miroslav Bobek visited us from Czech Radio last month we had never heard of ‘The Revealed’ – a Big Brother parody played out by Gorillas in the Prague Zoo. The competitors were members of a lowland gorilla family; Richard, Moja, Shinda, Kamba and others. The show was odd in so many ways, a TV […]
The Revealed, a Czech Radio gorilla project, carries on in the Year of the Gorilla, focusing more than before on the protection of lowland gorillas in the wild. The project has become a partner of the Year of the Gorilla and is now planning live webcasts from Limbe Wildlife Center in Cameroon. The Revealed has also started working with legendary […]
The Brazilian journalist Fátima Chuecco helps to spread the word on the Year of the Gorilla and gorilla protection to an audience in Brazil. She is also in charge of a Portuguese website on the YoG and topics related to gorilla conservation. We thank her for her activism and invite others to follow her example. Go to www.gorillashelp.com to find […]
The population of mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park has risen by 12.5%, a census shows. It is the first census to be completed by the park’s wildlife rangers since rebel troops seized control of the area in August 2007. “The status of Virunga’s Mountain Gorillas is a triumph for conservation,” said Emmanuel de Merode, […]
At the turn of the year 2005 and 2006 an unusual reality show came into being, initiated by Czech Radio. It was a reaction to the boom of container reality shows such as ‘Big Brother’. In this slightly different reality show the participants were the Prague Zoo gorillas. Richard, Shinda, Kijivu, Moja and later Kamba were monitored non-stop by 16 […]