Gorillas on the Internet

If you want to extend your surfing through the seemingly endless depths of the internet for information about gorillas, you may start at the Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel's Gorilla Help Site. A few links to organizations that are directly or indirectly occupied with gorillas:

• International Gorilla Conservation Programme
• DFGF (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, USA). Digital maps and videos of the Virunga Volcanoes can also be found here.
• the Gorilla Organization
• IPPL (International Primate Protection League)
• the Gorilla Haven web site
• the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
• the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund
• the Great Ape Project
• the gorilla site of WWF America
• Wildlifedirect

Several web sites deal particularly with the bushmeat problem:

• Bushmeat Exhibition Site
• Biosynergy Institute
• Ape Alliance
• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (AZA bushmeat project)
• GRASP
• Canadian Great Ape Alliance

The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance represents sanctuaries for the African apes; some of them also house gorillas. Regarding the Ebola problem with apes, Peter Walsh created a special website.

There are several organizations working in areas where gorillas are living, for example the Bwindi Impenetrable Great Ape Project. The Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, the Rwandan RDB and the Ugandan national parks authority Uganda Wildlife Authority have their own website, and the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is present on the internet too. Another organisation is ARCOS (Albertine Rift Conservation Society); the newsletter Backbone (English) or Le Pilier (French) can be downloaded from the website. ECOFAC's newsletter Canopée (in French) is also available on the web, as well as the one published by CARPE (Central African Regional Program for the Environment). A multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest is APFT (Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales). CEPF (Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund) is concerned with the conservation of biodiversity hotspots. An overview on protected areas worldwide is provided by the World Database on Protected Areas by the World Commission on Protected Areas.

For those who are looking for a job, there is an international internet job listing service called Primate Jobs coordinated by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center: Organizations with positions available or individuals seeking positions may use this service. To list a position, go to this address and select "Positions Available Listing Form". Those seeking positions will use the "Positions Wanted Listing Form", those looking for placement opportunities in primatology can consult the "Positions Available" listing, and organizations seeking potential candidates the "Positions Wanted" listings. On the Ape Alliance website you can also find job offers, if there are some available. The African Conservation Foundation offers jobs and opportunities for volunteers if they have offers, and animaljobsdirect.com as well as African Wildlife and Conservation contain links to job sites.

Our Who's Who? explains abbreviations that are used on our website and provides links, if available. Information about conservation, education and wildlife in Africa is available on the website of The African Conservation Foundation. ARKive provides a digital library and collection of films, prictures and audio of the world's endangered species.
Everybody who has a special interest in primatology should visit the Primate Information Network at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This site provides many links and services, for example with primate newsletters. For research on primate literature visit PrimateLit.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals is provided at www.iucnredlist.org, and the IUCN Primate Specialist Group has its own site. Satellite images of Central Africa are available for download at the ESA/SOGHA site and at the site of the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (provided by Global Forest Watch).

For anybody who is interested in the conservation of eastern gorillas, it is essential to monitor the political development in the respective countries. The latest information about the Great Lakes Crisis is available from ReliefWeb and IRIN news. Articles from the African press are listed at AllAfrica.com.

Interesting material and links for those who love gorillas and everything that deals with them are provided by GorillaHub.

Links to many of Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe's sponsors and cooperation partners are available here.

Finally: If you plan a trip to Africa to see the gorillas, you will find useful information and links here.

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