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Guarding one of the world’s few remaining mountain gorillas is a great way to support our field team in their efforts to protect and care for these wonderful animals and their forest habitat, now and in the future.

The park Rangers work tirelessly. Every day they patrol the Mikeno sector removing snares, evicting poachers and disrupting the production of charcoal, which is destroying the forest at a dizzying rate. Every day they make contact with all the gorilla families in the sector to monitor the health, record the behaviour, and update the records of every gorilla.

The information they gather is crucially important. It helps us to understand how mountain gorillas relate to their habitat, to one another, and to us; and how they might best be helped to survive. The Rangers’ work is difficult, dangerous and costly. Guarding a gorilla would help to clothe, feed and pay these Rangers; to keep them in the field and on patrol.

The veterinarians are crucially important members of the field team. On the strength of the information provided by the Rangers, the vets can intervene to give medical attention to a gorilla that is sick or injured. Guarding a gorilla would help to pay for the medical supplies and laboratory equipment the vets need to carry on working effectively.

The Gorilla Doctors carry out emergency interventions to save gorillas, after receving reports from Rangers in the field.

The field team is fighting at a strategic level to protect the gorillas’ habitat.  The goal of the Briquettes Programme, which is managed by members of the field team, is to get local people to stop using charcoal as their subsistence fuel and instead to use units of fuel, which are made from sustainable sources, called briquettes.

If enough people are persuaded to choose briquettes over charcoal then the deforestation that threatens the gorillas’ habitat will slow or stop.

The program has so far been very successful but this is a large, complex and expensive operation: the team is responsible for the marketing, manufacture, sale and delivery of these briquettes.

The members of that team need your support in order to develop their program. Guarding a gorilla would help to fund that development, to save the forest, and to give the gorillas a future.

Guarding a gorilla is a great way to give. Your gift, as well as the knowledge that you intend to keep on giving, will help the field team to plan and work more effectively; and to continue keeping the critically endangered Mountain Gorilla from extinction.

How do you Guard a Gorilla?

1. Please click here to see the list of Mountain Gorilla Families.

2. Choose your family - there are 6 in total in our Gorilla Sector. Or you can choose a Solitary Mountain Gorilla.

3. Click on the individual you wish to guard.

4. Hit DONATE NOW (the big red button).

The rest all goes through Paypal, and your donation will be recorded in real time in the donation widget at the side of the blog, AND on the Gorilla’s Profile Page.

This is the first time anyone has tried to document online, and so thoroughly, each habituated Mountain Gorilla. It has been a project that has been many months in the making, and of course is constantly evolving - and all the knowledge contained in the profiles comes straight from the Rangers like Innocent, Diddy and Jean Marie.

Humba, Humba family

Kakule, Munyaga Family

Anangana, Humba Family