Changes in Grauer's gorilla ( Gorilla beringei graueri ) and other primate populations in the Kahuzi‐Biega National Park and Oku Community Reserve, the heart of Grauer's gorilla global range

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Plumptre ◽  
Andrew Kirkby ◽  
Charlotte Spira ◽  
Jeannot Kivono ◽  
Guillain Mitamba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei

Occurrence and Molecular Analysis of Balantidium coli in Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1063-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Hassell ◽  
Damer P. Blake ◽  
Michael R. Cranfield ◽  
Jan Ramer ◽  
Jennifer N. Hogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Analysis ◽  
National Park ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Mountain Gorilla ◽  
Balantidium Coli ◽  
Gorilla Beringei Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei

scholarly journals The rules and the reality of mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei tracking: how close do tourists get?

Oryx ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Sandbrook ◽  
Stuart Semple
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
National Park ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Mountain Gorilla ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Gorilla Beringei Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Risk Of Disease ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei ◽  
First Time

Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei tracking tourism generates important revenue for conservation efforts but brings with it the threat of disease transmission into the gorilla population. This study quantifies for the first time aspects of encounters between gorillas and tourists at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park that are likely to contribute to the risk of disease transmission. These include how close tourists get to gorillas, how close encounters are initiated, how long they last, and the age class of gorillas involved. Tourists got significantly closer to gorillas than the park rules allow (a mean of 2.76 m, compared to the rule of 7 m), and remained close for long periods. Contacts with the gorillas most vulnerable to disease, the juveniles, were closer but of shorter duration than those with adults. Contacts initiated by gorillas were closer but shorter than those initiated by tourists. Taken together these results demonstrate that the present rules are failing, and that the risk of disease transmission may be greater than previously believed.

Conservation of the Mountain Gorilla and its Habitat in Rwanda

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander H. Harcourt ◽  
Kai Curry-Lindahl
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
National Park ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Local People ◽  
Mountain Gorilla ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Extensive Damage

Over the last twenty years, the population of Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) in the Virunga Volcanoes region of Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire, has halved from an estimated 400–500 to fewer than 250. The major cause of this decline is loss of habitat through large-scale appropriation of National Park land in Rwanda for agriculture, and through encroachment by local people and their cattle which causes extensive damage to vegetation within the protected area.

Cryptosporidium sp. and Giardia sp. Infections in Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bosco Nizeyi ◽  
Robert Mwebe ◽  
Ann Nanteza ◽  
Michael R. Cranfield ◽  
Gladys R. N. N. Kalema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Mountain Gorillas ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

The brain of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)

Primates ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 419-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Hosokawa ◽  
Toshiro Kamiya ◽  
Kazushige Hirosawa
Keyword(s):  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Mountain Gorilla ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei ◽  
The Brain

scholarly journals Three new mountain national parks for Uganda

Oryx ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Butynski ◽  
Jan Kalina
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
East Central ◽  
Albertine Rift ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Conservation Values ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei

For many years the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society has supported efforts to conserve forests in the Albertine Rift Afromontane Region of east-central Africa. The biodiversity of these forests is especially high but most have been destroyed or badly degraded. There are a large number of local, national and international initiatives to conserve at least some of the forests that remain. In 1991 Uganda created the Rwenzori Mountains, Mgahinga Gorilla, and Bwindi-Impenetrable National Parks, thus protecting all three of its Albertine Rift montane forests. This paper presents a synopsis of the conservation values of these three parks, and describes the conservation problems and the efforts to help ensure their proper development and long-term viability. Considerable progress towards the conservation of all three areas has already been made and future prospects are good, particularly for the mountain gorilla Gorilla gorilla beringei.

Brain structure variation in great apes, with attention to the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chet C. Sherwood ◽  
Michael R. Cranfield ◽  
Patrick T. Mehlman ◽  
Alecia A. Lilly ◽  
Jo Anne L. Garbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Structure ◽  
Great Apes ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Mountain Gorilla ◽  
Structure Variation ◽  
Gorilla Beringei Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Beringei ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla Beringei
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