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17 Nov

Bwindi Gorillas Welcome their Newest Member

It’s proving to be a productive year for the mountain gorillas of Bwindi, an encouraging sign that conservation initiatives to ensure the survival of this endangered species are paying off. Businza, an adult female from the Rushegura gorilla family, gave birth on 11 November, her second birth in five years. The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in […]

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1 Apr

Two New Gorilla Groups Opened for Gorilla Tourism

Gorilla tourism is thriving in Uganda, a country with more than half of the total remaining world’s population of the mountain gorillas. The good news coming from Uganda states the number of gorilla groups open for gorilla tourism have increased in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park. The two new gorilla groups are Bukingi and Bushabo […]

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22 Jun

Mizano Black-back Gorilla Killed by Poachers

Some very sad news just in from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Mizano, my favorite gorilla of all time has been tragically killed by poachers. Mizano beloned to the 20 strong Habinyanja gorilla group has killed in a poaching incident. It is the first incident whereby a gorilla has been killed by poachers since 1995. […]

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19 Mar

Uganda Mountain Gorilla Groups Merged

News just in from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda is the the 19 strong Habinyanja groups have merged with the 5 strong Mubare gorilla group. At this time, there are two silverbacks ruling the roost. Ruhondeza form Mubare and Makara from Habinyanja. The gorillas are still being viewed as one by visitors. Not sure for how […]

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15 Mar

Oldest Habituated Silverback gets kicked out!

Ruhondeza, the silverback from the  MUBARE gorilla group in Bwindi forest, Uganda has been kicked out. Ruhondeza was the first silverback to be habituated in the rain-forest. It is believed he is over 45 years of age. This is old for a gorilla, especially a habituated one. His son, Kanyonye has kicked him out. Its […]

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10 May

Bwindi Twin Gorilla Katungi Dies

Katungi; an 18 Months Twin Gorilla from Bwindi Impenetrable Forest has died.  Katungi had been discovered sick by the Bwindi Forest Gorilla Trackers and had all along been put under a watchful eye and attention. ‘Friend a Gorilla’ website reports. The Gorilla trackers in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest who made a thorough check through, discovered Katungi who […]

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3 Feb

UWA Habituates Gorillas For Tourism

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in the past few months has been habituating another mountain gorillas group (Bikingi) for tourism. This is a response to a public outcry where tourism stakeholders were not satisfied with the arrangement under which UWA gave monopoly rights of Nkuringo gorillas to a private operator under the disguise of doing […]

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27 Jan

Another Habituated Gorilla Group in Bwindi Forest

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has started habituating another group of gorillas in a bid to enlarge tourism in the southern part of the Bwindi National Park in south-western Uganda. Sam Mwandha, the director of conservation told The New Vision on Monday that habituation of the Bikingi gorilla group begun recently. He said that it […]

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14 Oct

Newly Gorilla Family Habituated in Bwindi

Excit­ing news for the gorilla pop­u­la­tion in Uganda… A newly habit­u­ated gorilla fam­ily with 30 mem­bers was launched for tourism on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2009. Chris­tened the Nshongi group, the fam­ily is located in Rushaga on the south­west­ern part of Bwindi Impen­e­tra­ble National Park. This is the largest group for tourism in the coun­try and is […]

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12 Oct

Gorillas Visit Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp

Check out this amaz­ing pho­to­graph cour­tesy of Sanc­tu­ary Gorilla For­est Camp. Tucked away in Bwindi Impen­e­tra­ble For­est in Uganda, Sanc­tu­ary Gorilla For­est Camp was recently host to some unex­pected vis­i­tors. One of our guests at camp fell sick and had to for­sake his long awaited dream of gorilla track­ing. For­tu­nately, the goril­las decided to visit […]

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