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Archive for December, 2010
Mountain Gorilla Census Results: Population Increases by 26.3%
December 15th, 2010 by Eddy
The results of the census that was conducted in the spring of 2010 show that the number of Mountain Gorillas living in the tri-national forested area of which Virunga forms a part, has increased by 26.3% over the last seven years - an average growth rate of 3.7% per annum. Of the 480 Mountain Gorillas living in greater Virunga, 14 are Solitary Silverbacks, and the remaining animals live in one or other of the population’s 36 family groups. If you add together the 306 gorillas that we know to have been living in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in 2006, with those living in greater Virunga, and throw in the four orphans living in the Senkwekwe Centre, you get 790 - the global population of a critically endangered species.
Bright Continent, Bright Future
December 3rd, 2010 by Eddy
If peace has changed Congolese society for the better, then much improved governance has made that change exponential. Nowhere is that change more visible than here in Virunga National Park.
One of the countless welcome measures taken by this government is the recent and radical shake-up of the structure and policies of the ICCN. The institution’s leaders have changed the way that they recruit, train, deploy, and retain staff, and improved the systems by which they manage their affairs. Now that the country is at peace and the organization charged with protecting the park functions more effectively, ideas for improving Virunga that have spent years on the drawing board or in the imagination, are materializing fast.
Mountain Gorilla Census Results: Population Increases by 26.3%
December 15th, 2010 by EddyThe results of the census that was conducted in the spring of 2010 show that the number of Mountain Gorillas living in the tri-national forested area of which Virunga forms a part, has increased by 26.3% over the last seven years - an average growth rate of 3.7% per annum. Of the 480 Mountain Gorillas living in greater Virunga, 14 are Solitary Silverbacks, and the remaining animals live in one or other of the population’s 36 family groups. If you add together the 306 gorillas that we know to have been living in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in 2006, with those living in greater Virunga, and throw in the four orphans living in the Senkwekwe Centre, you get 790 - the global population of a critically endangered species.
Bright Continent, Bright Future
December 3rd, 2010 by EddyIf peace has changed Congolese society for the better, then much improved governance has made that change exponential. Nowhere is that change more visible than here in Virunga National Park.
One of the countless welcome measures taken by this government is the recent and radical shake-up of the structure and policies of the ICCN. The institution’s leaders have changed the way that they recruit, train, deploy, and retain staff, and improved the systems by which they manage their affairs. Now that the country is at peace and the organization charged with protecting the park functions more effectively, ideas for improving Virunga that have spent years on the drawing board or in the imagination, are materializing fast.
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News from Congo- Report: Congo mutineer forces 149 more boys, young men to fight - Los Angeles Times
- Group: Congo general recruiting children again - Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Vodacom May Lose Congo Shares as Court Orders June Sale - BusinessWeek
- Prosecutor: Congo suspects are guilty as charged - Fox News
- Group: Congo general recruiting children again - STLtoday.com
- ICC Prosecutors Say Congo Leaders Guilty of Village Massacre - AllAfrica.com
- Falconets off to Congo DR - Nigerian Tribune
- Congo Police Investigate Former PM for Corruption - Voice of America
- NEWSMAKER-Goodlace a calm hand for Implats tiller - Reuters
- Congo: Peacekeepers Wounded - New York Times
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