Success Stories

We transferred the first funds for project support in 2013: Andrew Dunn, our partner at WCS Nigeria, had asked us to fund the renovation of the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary...

The population of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo depends on charcoal for cooking. To obtain it, they cut large areas of forest, even in national parks and reserves...

Everything developed as a result of lessons learnt from two concurrent projects: the project for the protection of gorilla habitat on Mount Tshiaberimu, and the Sarambwe Reserve...

The Sarambwe Reserve Integrated Management Support Project ran from 2009 to early 2011. The project was funded by IUCN France and B&RD and implemented by the Congolese NGO...

Conservation of the Sarambwe Reserve has faced many difficulties for many years: security problems, invasions of foreign nationals, and a lack of funds, equipment and...

Cross River gorillas face diverse threats resulting from high human population densities around the areas they inhabit. Efforts to save these gorillas must therefore take into...

For the Mikeno Sector we handed over this urgently needed equipment to the Virunga National Park administration.

After a lighting had destroyed the solar power system of the Kagwene Reserve, we funded the repairs.

For their patrols in the Sarambwe Reserve during one year the rangers were provided with food rations.

In the villages close to the gorilla national parks in Uganda and Rwanda, HuGo (Human-Gorilla Conflict Intervention) teams are working to improve the relationship between the...