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Gorilla Safari Countries Agree to Joint Conservation
By admin | February 25, 2008
Uganda, Rwanda and Congo have finally launched a joint conservation campaign to protect the world’s most endangered species, the mountain gorillas in Africa.
Many activitied including poaching, human activity and settlement and wars in the Great Lakes region. Each country has been having its own conservation efforts yet the gorillas seem to be almost in the same region.
For the first time, the 3 nations have agreed to protect the great apes which are threatened with utmost extinction and insecurity in the troubled region,” said Moses Mapesa,Executive Director, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).
Almost half of the remaining mountain gorillas live in a row of adjoining national parks close to the borders separating the 3 nations.The other remaining 380 are in Uganda’s Bwindi.
Topics: Gorilla Safaris |