Tshiaberimu

Hi, this is Jean Claude,
Unfortunately I have some bad news about our patrol vehicle, which is in a pretty bad state.  The truck itself was purchased in 2006 and it is used full time to cover all activities: ration transportation, administrative duties, anti-poaching patrols and helping with a range of community projects around MtT.
Although it [...]

Hi this is Jean-Claude, 
Attacks against the guards of the Virunga National Park have increasingly grown over the last few years and as a result we’ve decided to come up with a three-pronged approach, which we hope will help the situation.
  
The strategies being implemented include: 
1)    Capacity building: To deal with the increasing violence we ideally need more [...]

Hi this is Vhosi, Social Assistant at Mount Tshiabirimu for the Gorilla Organization      
Currently at Mount Tshiabirimu two activities are putting a massive strain on the gorilla population: charcoal production and bamboo growing. We have more than fifteen villages where the human population rate is about 203 people/square kilometre of density, and their food comes from [...]

Hi this is Tuver
 
Jean Claude has informed me that the population of Kisoni village, on the outskirts of Mount Tshiaberimu, recently handed-over a blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) to ICCN rangers after she ventured out of the forest and was held captive by individuals in the village.

 
The ranger Kataps, while walking in the region, noticed the monkey, [...]