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The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and partner conservation groups celebrated the results of a 2006 census survey which showed that the wild population of endangered mountain gorillas has increased. The results, released last week by the Uganda…

Three Rwandan poachers convicted of killing two endangered mountain gorillas and stealing a baby one have been fined and sentenced to four years in prison, an official confirmed on Thursday, January 30th, 2003.The three poachers, who were former…

 The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) joins Virunga National Park (VNP) in mourning the loss of Bukima, the once-dominant silverback of the Rugendo mountain gorilla troop. Bukima succumbed to injuries on June 26 sustained in a fight with…

Statement by the International Gorilla Conservation Program, a joint initiative of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna and Flora International and World Wide Fund for Nature.Tuesday 5 June 2001--On Saturday, June 2, militia groups crossed the…

Congolese authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of 10 mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year. The suspect is a senior park official and the ongoing investigation attributes the motivation…

Conservationists and park officials have managed to protect the Virunga population of highly endangered mountain gorillas despite protracted conflict in and around their habitat, the mountains where Congo-Kinshasa meets Rwanda and Uganda. The…

AWF With the International Gorilla Conservation Programme Celebrates Conservation Win KIGALI, RWANDA - The number on one of the world's most charismatic and endangered species is in.The analysis of the census conducted in March…

Total world population of endangered species now stands at 880 KAMPALA, Uganda, November 13, 2013 -- Despite conflicts in surrounding regions that potentially threaten mountain gorillas, results from a 2011 census has found that Uganda&#39…

Emerton L. 1999. Mount Kenya: the economics of community conservation. London: International Institute for Environment and Development; 1999 Sep.

Yes, a census is about getting the population numbers of mountain gorillas and their distributions within the forest. But what goes on in the course of conducting the census is, in some ways, much more valuable than the results themselves. On my…

After a three-hour ride on the back of a 125cc motorcycle from Djolu, a small town in AWF’s Congo landscape in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we came across a boisterous group of boys rushing up a trail through the…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2018.

Just a year after the first five ruffed lemurs raised in captivity made news when they were reintroduced into their native Madagascar, four others made the same trip from the United States to the Betampona Natural Reserve.After a few weeks of…