COVID-19 and Gorilla Doctors
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Never before have we understood the concept of One Health more…
[details]Journal #60, 1/2020
GORILLA JOURNAL 60
Conservation Efforts and Costs for Monitoring Gorillas at Douguetsi Site, Gabon
Despite the efforts of conservation NGOs and research teams, the expansion of anthropogenic activities such as bushmeat hunting, logging, and…
[details]Essential Components of the Mountain Gorilla Success Story
Over the past five years the conservation community has successfully completed what, to date, have been the most intensive and comprehensive…
[details]1,063 Mountain Gorillas - What Does this Number Mean?
My entire childhood was spent in the south of France, on a hill between an evergreen oak forest and the garrigue. Our family had a lot of cats, who…
[details]The Sarambwe Nature Reserve after the Demarcation of the International Border
In our last article (Gorilla Journal 58) we wrote about our hope that the encroachment of the Sarambwe Nature Reserve (SNR) by Ugandan farmers in…
[details]Communities in Sarambwe
It is not easy to convince the local population of the benefits of nature conservation if the living conditions are as difficult as they are in the…
[details]Gorillas of the Ebo Forest Threatened by Proposed Forest Management Units for Timber Exploitation
The Government of Cameroon has proposed two Forest Management Units (FMU) for timber exploitation which completely cover the proposed Ebo National…
[details]A Long-Term Monitoring Programme for Great Apes in Monte Alén National Park
Equatorial Guinea's forests maintain some of the highest levels of biodiversity in Central Africa (Sunderland 2005). Despite its small size, the…
[details]Itombwe Nature Reserve: Conservation Efforts 2017 to 2019
The East African Albertine Rift is known for its extremely high biodiversity and endemism, the highest in continental Africa, and has been the subject…
[details]Mount Tshiaberimu - the Science behind the Mountain of Spirits
The northern sector of Mount Tshiaberimu is an integral part of the Virunga National Park (VNP), the west is adjacent to Lake Edward in North Kivu…
[details]Reactions of Wild Great Apes to Camera-trap Devices
Camera trapping has become a predominant method for wildlife monitoring (Burton et al. 2015; Steenweg et al. 2017), including primates (Gerber et al.…
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