14 May Uganda ramps up safety as gorillas get tested for coronavirus exposure
If a sample tests positive, the respective group is immediately isolated from others, with help of rangers who will monitor its movements 24/7...
02 May Uganda: Corona protection for gorillas
This is Bwindi, one of the last rainforests in Uganda. Impenetrable, that's what the people call it here. Bwindi is home to mountain gorillas. Their species is threatened: the forests offer less and less protection. The danger for them increases because humans are getting closer...
20 Dec Christmas appeal: Gorillas face new danger from man in coronavirus
An invisible danger is stalking the forest home of mountain gorillas but their human guardians are fighting hard to protect them....
23 Jul Mountain gorillas face extinction due to threats of both coronavirus and poaching
We are protecting wildlife at risk from poachers due to the conservation funding crisis caused by COVID-19. Help is desperately needed to support wildlife rangers, local communities and law enforcement personnel to prevent wildlife crime....
19 May How Coronavirus—and Lack of Tourism—Impact East Africa’s Gorillas and Communities
Buhoma's Main Street resembles an abandoned old Western movie set. A block of false-front looking buildings, constructed from a hodgepodge of concrete, brick and metal, line the Ugandan village's block-long dirt thoroughfare that leads to Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest, home to half of the world's...
18 Dec Africa’s mountain gorillas also at risk from coronavirus
As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, conservationists are warning of the risk to another vulnerable species: Africa’s endangered mountain gorilla....