I have just got back to the office in Goma after a trip to Kahuzi Biega National Park. I was hoping to get some photos of the new baby twins that were born into Chiminuka’s group in November. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to see the twins, their mother is being very protective of them and
I have some exciting news. Our rangers at Kahuzi Beiga National Park have reported that twin baby gorillas were born a few weeks ago! The twins have been born in to the Chimanuka group and are the fourth pair of twins born in to this family. There are fewer than 5,000 eastern lowland gorillas remaining
Here’s another of Ian Redmond’s YoG interviews, this time with John Kahekwa at the Kahuzi Biega National Park. The park has lost most of its gorillas and elephants to poaching related to coltan mining and the war which started in 1994, and the absence of their ‘gardening’ activities has led to profound changes in vegetation
The excitement was palpable on the drive up to Kahuzi-Biega National Park HQ. For several of the Australian Network 7 TV crew, this was to be their first gorilla encounter and they had been planning for months and travelling for days to get here. The chief warden had agreed to give an interview, and I
Looking back on the year, 1998, it is difficult for even the sunniest person to be optimistic about D.R. Congo. Since August, 1998, rebel forces have been waging war against the government of Laurent Kabila. Fighting has concentrated in the eastern part of the country and has been devastating to both people and wildlife. To
Eastern Zaire Gorilla and Forest Survey Project was approved through the signature of a collaboration convention between the Government of Zaire and the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1992. Former President Deputy General of Zaire’s Nature Conservation Institute (IZCN), Dr. Mankoto ma Mbaelele, was the founder of the project along with his WCS partners. In short,
