In 2016, Volcanoes National Park generated $16.4 million from park entry fees. Incredible news for Virunga and incredible news for conservation, and testament to the continued work of Virunga's Rangers in ensuring the protection of the species. Gorillas Get Involved Contact About us Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Adopt Donate. Our award-winning field projects address the threats and help local communities.
We invest in small-scale projects which contribute to the conservation of gorillas and their habitat in Central Africa. It’s efforts like these that will … Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is one of the UNESCO's heritage sites best known for mountain Gorillas and Gorilla tracking.
The Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge, in the foothills of the Virunga Mountains, and Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge, outside of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, are community-owned tourism lodges that benefit the local people who share their backyard with great apes by generating income through tourism. We are so delighted to share the news that the mountain gorilla population has surpassed 1000!
Gorillas are among our closest living relatives yet they risk being lost forever. In general, females emigrate from their natal groups to avoid inbreeding. Adopt a gorilla from just £3 a month and help save a species on the edge of extinction. There are just 1,004 mountain gorillas left in the world. Despite the leadership role of the silverback, females have a free choice to stay or transfer to another group. Discover More . Project Koko has become the longest-running interspecies communication study in history and the only one involving gorillas. Discover More . Mountain gorilla males often form an all-male bachelor group. This may offer advantages in terms of safety, but eventually they will try to form their own harem. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is the largest and longest-running organization fully dedicated to gorilla conservation. Gorillas remain on the brink of extinction and without our continued efforts, their future is anything but secure, and neither is ours. The 27.8-hectare of donated land is adjacent to Volcanoes National Park and is the narrowest part of the park in an area where endangered mountain gorillas often wander across the park boundary, which increases the risk of human-gorilla conflict and the danger of exposure to deadly disease. Females. We support; Gorillas; Get Involved We support. No one knows gorillas like we do. The Gorilla Foundation was created in 1976 to pioneer interspecies communications between humans and gorillas. Every day, we protect gorilla families, study how they live, and teach future scientists and local communities to do the same. Discover More .