20 Feb Selfie-taking tourists risk giving wild gorillas COVID-19, other diseases
The majority of gorilla selfies that researchers found on Instagram violated social distancing rules meant to keep the endangered great apes safe....
19 Feb Beyond the tourist trail
Graeme Green speaks with local experts about why wildlife protection in Africa and Asia must push beyond relying on international visitors and foreign professionals towards sustainable, locally led initiatives....
18 Feb Protecting Gorillas Through Human Health (PODCAST)
When a scabies outbreak among a gorilla population was linked back to the hygiene habits of the local communities they lived near, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka quickly learned that the conservation of the species was even more intimately linked to humans than previously thought....
17 Feb Tourist selfies could be spreading COVID to endangered mountain gorillas
New research has found that tourists' selfies may be putting mountain gorillas at risk of contracting COVID-19. Primate conservation experts at Oxford Brookes University in the UK studied nearly 1,000 Instagram posts from people visiting the species in East Africa....
16 Feb Tragic gorilla killing launches initiative to tackle food poverty in Uganda
“They don’t have anything to eat”: Conservation Through Public Health is on a mission to save Uganda’s gorillas from poaching by providing food to vulnerable communities....
15 Feb African Environmentalists Describe the Link Between People and Conservation (VIDEO)
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