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Nyampinga baby Gorilla

22 Baby Gorillas Named at 2016 Kwita Izina

22 Baby Gorillas Named at 2016 Kwita Izina

Nyampinga baby Gorilla

Twenty Two baby mountain gorillas were given names at the 12th Kwita Izina held at Musanze on the foothills of the Virunga. The annual ceremony involved dignitaries, locals, tourists and conservationists giving the baby gorillas names of their choice. From September 2015 to September 2016, a total of 23 baby gorillas were born. Unfortunately one

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Rwanda Names 22 Baby Gorillas at 2016 Kwita Izina

Rwanda Names 22 Baby Gorillas at 2016 Kwita Izina

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Twenty Two baby mountain gorillas were given names yesterday at the 12th Kwita Izina. The 2016 Kwita Izina edition was held at the foothills of the Virunga mountains at the Kinigi Grounds, Musanze District in Rwanda’s Northern Province. The 6 hour event was attended by thousands of people including tourists, locals of Musanze, conservationists, tourism

Gorilla Exhibition

Rwanda Hosts First Ever Conservation & Tourism Exhibition

Rwanda Hosts First Ever Conservation & Tourism Exhibition

Gorilla Exhibition

Rwanda loves nothing better than natural conservation. Today the country celebrates the first Kwita Izina conservation and Tourism exhibition. The event started in Kigali on August 27th and it has attracted several exhibitors from Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. All countries are represented by private and public sectors of the travel and tourism industry

Community Based Tourism in Rwanda

Community Benefits Revealed by RDB

Community Benefits Revealed by RDB

Community Based Tourism in Rwanda

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

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Kwita Izina Gala Raise Funds for Rwanda Conservation Projects

Kwita Izina Gala Raise Funds for Rwanda Conservation Projects

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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

Batwa of Rwanda

Cross-cutting Efforts to Integrate the Marginalized Batwa People

Cross-cutting Efforts to Integrate the Marginalized Batwa People

Batwa of Rwanda

“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

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24 Gorillas Named at Kwita Izina Gives More Hope to Gorilla Tourism

24 Gorillas Named at Kwita Izina Gives More Hope to Gorilla Tourism

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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

Virunga Gorillas

Mountain Gorilla Population Rises

Mountain Gorilla Population Rises

Virunga Gorillas

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

Rwanda Gorillas

Tracking Gorillas Twice in Rwanda

Tracking Gorillas Twice in Rwanda

Rwanda Gorillas

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

18 Baby Mountain Gorillas Named at 2015 Kwita Izina

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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