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News Archive
How you can help |
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Everything starts with awareness. Virunga needs you to spread the news of the crisis to everyone you know and ask each of them to do the same. By harnessing the power of... |
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History of the conflict |
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Ever since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the region has been plagued with civil war. Blessed by boundless natural resources, minerals, and fossil fuel deposits, the area around... |
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The frontliners |
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Against the backdrop of war – and despite the death of 130 of their comrades over the last 15 years – Virunga’s park rangers continue to protect the mountain gorillas. Why do they... |
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Reasons for hope |
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Despite the seemingly endless conflict, Virunga is actually one of the great success stories in international conservation. That’s because the park has managed to increase... |
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New Gorilla Guardians in Cameroon |
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The Cross River gorillas in Cameroon need our help again! We received a request from Christopher Jameson, the Director of the WCS project for the Cross River gorillas in Cameroon.... |
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S.O.S Gorilla |
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| July 2012 | ||
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My name is Hèctor Prat, a passionate for the gorillas since I was a child, perhaps because I was born in a city that had as its maximum representative our missed Copito de... |
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International Gorilla Workshop |
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From June 11 to 15, 2012 Apenheul Primate Park in Apeldoorn (together with GaiaZOO Kerkrade) hosted the International Gorilla Workshop. The new conference center De St@art was the... |
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Club des Amis des Gorilles |
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An isolated population of gorillas lives in the Ebo forest, Cameroon, between the Cross River gorillas and the western lowland gorillas south of the Sanaga river. These gorillas... |
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Gorilla Diversity |
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Present Gorilla TaxonomyA species is a population (or group of populations), distinguished by the possession of one or more consistent heritable differences from other such... |
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Action Plan for Cross River Gorillas |
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| July 2012 | ||
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In 2007 IUCN published a five-year (2007–2011) regional Action Plan for the conservation of the Cross River gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli (Oates et al. 2007) outlining... |
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