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Turning Gorilla Poachers to Farmers

hezron4k@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:44:01 +0100

This project intended to change the trend and turn poachers to farmers for the production of food and surplus for sale an effective ground for conservation education and sensitisation. Each year communities in different associations save seeds to plant for the next season from what they have grown a sustainable element to keep the project benefiting and on going.

The main objective o [...]

Iby'Iwacu Cultural Village

hezron4k@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:44:01 +0100

Communities around the famous mountain gorilla's national park in Nyabigoma, Kinigi, Musanze district In the Northern Province supported by Rwanda Eco-Tours, have embraced the eco and cultural tourism concept by stopping poaching to raise their income levels through a participative approach as an incentive for conservation.

Having been poaching for centuries, given [...]

When poachers dance instead

hezron4k@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:44:01 +0100

The News is publishing a series about Black Press reporter Colleen Dane’s recent trip to sub-Saharan Africa. Dane, a former News reporter now working at our sister paper in Courtenay, was the recipient of the Seeing the World Through New Eyes fellowship, funded by the Jack Webster Foundation and CIDA, and designed to introduce young reporters to international reporti [...]

Gorilla Naming Ceremony, 2008: Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas

hezron4k@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:44:01 +0100

"Working Together for Our Wildlife" Kwita Izina ceremony in Rwanda

The mountain Gorillas share with the human beings 98% of the genes and about a third of the world’s total mountain gorilla’s population live in Rwanda. The Rwanda Office of Tourism and National Park (ORTPN) and indeed the entire Rwandan community found it pertinent to extend the much cherished [...]