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Mountain Gorilla Preserve Attacked in Uganda

March 1, 1998
Rebel forces attacked a conservation outpost in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda at dawn on Monday, according to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). Two Americans, four Britons, and two New Zealanders, all of them tourists, were…

Mountain Gorilla Population Steadily Increasing

April 23, 2007
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and partner conservation groups celebrated the results of a 2006 census survey which showed that the wild population of endangered mountain gorillas has increased. The results, released last week by the Uganda…

Mountain Gorilla Poachers Jailed in Rwanda

February 13, 2003
Three Rwandan poachers convicted of killing two endangered mountain gorillas and stealing a baby one have been fined and sentenced to four years in prison, an official confirmed on Thursday, January 30th, 2003.The three poachers, who were former…

Mountain Gorilla Patriarch Bukima Passes Away

July 11, 2024
 The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) joins Virunga National Park (VNP) in mourning the loss of Bukima, the once-dominant silverback of the Rugendo mountain gorilla troop. Bukima succumbed to injuries on June 26 sustained in a fight with…

Mountain Gorilla Killed in Rwanda

June 6, 2001
Statement by the International Gorilla Conservation Program, a joint initiative of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna and Flora International and World Wide Fund for Nature.Tuesday 5 June 2001--On Saturday, June 2, militia groups crossed the…

Mountain Gorilla Investigation Gathers Pace

March 27, 2008
Congolese authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of 10 mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year. The suspect is a senior park official and the ongoing investigation attributes the motivation…

Mountain Gorilla Group Grows Despite Decade Of Armed Conflict

January 22, 2001
Conservationists and park officials have managed to protect the Virunga population of highly endangered mountain gorillas despite protracted conflict in and around their habitat, the mountains where Congo-Kinshasa meets Rwanda and Uganda. The…

Mountain Gorilla Census Reveals Increase in Population

December 7, 2010
AWF With the International Gorilla Conservation Programme Celebrates Conservation Win KIGALI, RWANDA - The number on one of the world's most charismatic and endangered species is in.The analysis of the census conducted in March…

Mountain Gorilla Census Finds Increased Population in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

November 13, 2012
Total world population of endangered species now stands at 880 KAMPALA, Uganda, November 13, 2013 -- Despite conflicts in surrounding regions that potentially threaten mountain gorillas, results from a 2011 census has found that Uganda&#39…

Mountain Gorilla

February 21, 2013

Mount Kenya: the economics of community conservation.

January 7, 1999
Emerton L. 1999. Mount Kenya: the economics of community conservation. London: International Institute for Environment and Development; 1999 Sep.

Mount Elgon

July 25, 2023

More than counting gorillas: the hidden value of a census

November 3, 2011
Yes, a census is about getting the population numbers of mountain gorillas and their distributions within the forest. But what goes on in the course of conducting the census is, in some ways, much more valuable than the results themselves. On my…

More Than a School Building

January 12, 2015
After a three-hour ride on the back of a 125cc motorcycle from Djolu, a small town in AWF’s Congo landscape in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we came across a boisterous group of boys rushing up a trail through the…

More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa's protected areas with lions

December 14, 2018
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2018.

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