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Silvestre Mburanumwe 1947-2010

Silvestre Mburanumwe, Innocent's father, has passed away. His funeral was held yesterday at his home in Rutshuru, just north of Rumangabo. Silvestre had been a Ranger since 1968 - 42 years of service to the Congolese Wildlife Authority and 42 years of dedication to the protection of Virunga and its wildlife.
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The Senkwekwe Centre Campaign

The purpose of this very successful campaign was to raise enough money to provide the park with new infrastructure vital to the protection of the critically endangered Mountain Gorilla: Our campaign strategy was to solicit donations from individual people and institutions, and simultaneously to conduct an online fundraising effort of unprecedented intensity. With the money we raised we built The Senkwewke Centre, a gorilla orphanage that provides accommodation for both the gorillas and their designated carers. The campaign led directly ... Read the full story »

The Briquettes Campaign

The Cause This online campaign was intended to raise money for our most important strategic initiative - the on-going program to promote the manufacture, sale and consumption of biomass fuel briquettes. We wanted to expand the program by setting up more briquette presses; to increase productivity and consumption and thereby reduce the demand for charcoal. We needed our online community to donate in support of that goal. In addition we wanted people to engage with the problem of deforestation at a ... Read the full story »

Hippos Campaign

The Cause This successful month-long, online campaign was designed to raise money to help finance the defence of Virunga's increasingly beleaguered hippo population. Virunga National Park used to have the most important population of hippos in the world but a long period of intensive poaching has taken its toll, and the numbers have dropped from almost 30,000 in the 1970s to about 630 at the last official count in 2006. The number is almost certainly lower now. The maps below (courtesy of Bruno ... Read the full story »

The School Desks Campaign

In Brief The purpose of this campaign was to provide the school at Rumangabo with new desks and benches, and in so doing further strengthen the relationship between the park and the people who will one day protect it. In comparison with the Senkwekwe Centre Campaign this one seems a little pale. It was nowhere near as ambitious, it had little glamour, it didn't address the needs of a flagship species and it didn't promise infrastructure. For all these reasons, perhaps, ... Read the full story »