Whether you donate money or time, giving back is beneficial not just for the recipients but to the entire nation. Rwanda communities celebrate the values of giving back in many ways like sanitation, Education, healthy and conservation. The Rwanda development board through its national park neighboring community giving back initiatives open a seven new modern
Kwita Izina Gala Raise Funds for Rwanda Conservation Projects
Nature lovers, conservationists and well wishers who showed up for the Kwita Izina Gala at the iconic Kigali Convention Centre on the 26th of August 2016 raised funds for three special Rwanda conservation projects. The projects in question include a community Eco-Lodge on the outskirts of Akagera National Park, Imisambi Sanctuary for Grey Crowned Cranes
Cross-cutting Efforts to Integrate the Marginalized Batwa People
“To be marginalized” in a Rwandan society means that you don’t have access to opportunities as other members of your community, and that lack of equal opportunity persists from generation to generation. What it feels like, day-to-day, is that your children are not able to freely play with your neighbor’s children, or that you are
24 Gorillas Named at Kwita Izina Gives More Hope to Gorilla Tourism
A few months ago Rwanda named twenty four baby mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park an event which stimulated Rwanda gorilla tourism in the whole world. Rwanda its self expects to receive more tourists taking gorilla safaris in 2016 and the years to come because the ceremony will always be celebrated. The birth of
Mountain Gorilla Population Rises
Mountain gorillas are regarded as the second close cousins to man after the chimpanzee and they share almost 97% of human genes. Over the past years these apes where threatened most especially by humans who used to hunt them for trade meat and medicines and deforestation for settlement and agriculture was the order of the
Tracking Gorillas Twice in Rwanda
Rwanda is a home to over 380 mountain gorillas in the world without including the half of the entire population which is found in Uganda at both Bwindi forest and Mgahinga national park a place where silver meets gold. Of Late the country’s gorilla park Volcanoes National Park has 10 habituated gorilla families and only
18 Baby Mountain Gorillas Named at 2015 Kwita Izina
Rwanda celebrated the birth of 18 baby gorillas at the 10th anniversary of Kwita Izina. The annual naming ceremony of the rare mountain gorillas took place on July 3rd 2015 at the slopes of Volcanoes National Park at Kinigi in the north western part of Rwanda. More than 40,000 residents from Rwanda and visitors from
Gorillas Know No Rules
“Excuse me, excuse me, coming through, coming through,” is what I imagined Intambara to be saying as he brushed gently past me. Intambara, of course, was speaking ‘beringei beringei’, otherwise known as ‘gorilla speak’. I was standing in the middle of the rainforest of the now dormant Bisoke volcano, watching the amazing mountain gorillas of
Volcanoes National Park Gets Modern Tools
The Congo Basin Ecosystems Conservation (PACEBCO), in partnership with Rwanda Natural Resources Authority donated modern tools worth Rwf118 Million to Rwanda Development Board to enhance capacity in protection of wild animals in the park. The tools worth Rwf118m were provided by Congo Basin Ecosystems Conservation (PACEBCo), in partnership with Rwanda Natural Resources Authority. Among the
For Rwanda, More Mountain Gorillas Mean more Revenues
At the foot of the Virunga Volcanic Mountains, Northern Rwanda, thousands of villagers gather to celebrate the birth of 18 mountain gorilla newborns just meters from the bambooforest up in the hills. Hundreds of tourists and foreign dignitaries attend the annual baby gorilla naming ceremony, locally known as KwitaIzina. Local foods are prepared. Chefs roast fresh goat