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Lufthansa’s “Neighbor Gorilla”, Corrected
The Lufthansa magazine interview we mentioned in June has been translated into English for their website. It might be useful to ad some corrections and clarifications: – permits for gorilla tracking in Uganda cost USD 600 (or USD 450 in November and April/May)– it is very much possible to get an internal flight to and airstrip…
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Pocket Guide with Rwanda on the Way
If you are from Musanze, you can truly help us a lot with your feedback!
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30,000 Reached, 10,000 Video Plays: What Next?
The success of the Video Map took our global team by surprise. We knew we had something special but we didn’t expect such huge, immediate Facebook effect. Our post reached 18,942 people because we paid Mr Zuckerberg $7 (yes, seven dollars) but the rest has all been “organic”; friends sharing with friends. We also prepared a…
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Background Story: Global Team behind the Video Map
Over three years, sleeping in grass-thatched huts and working in mud structures whose glass-less windows open towards a magnificent mountain lake, or from their homes across the globe, a small group of expert volunteers worked on a project like no other, the Gorilla Highlands Video Map. They cared about an outstanding region in the middle…
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Gorilla Highlands in Germany
Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, produces a monthly magazine for over 300,000 of its customers. In the June 2016 edition of Lufthansa Exclusive our region gets 9 pages, a consequence of the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip that brought Jiro Ose here last November. If you read German or simply want to see some great photography, download…
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In Great Company Mapping Is Fun
The Gorilla Highlands team spent the last two days learning from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Our open invitation to join this mapping training brought to Lake Bunyonyi four Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides, a volunteer from Echuya Eco-tourism Association and a guide-in-training from Mutanda Lake Resort. All in all, 19 people had an educational and…
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Help Us Refine Our Region on the OpenStreetMap
The Gorilla Highlands initiative is about putting southwestern Uganda and northwestern Rwanda onto the global map – and on 2-3 June 2016 there will be a special opportunity to do that practically. The Ugandan OpenStreetMap community, with support from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and Edirisa are teaming up for two days of training with…
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Our Most Popular Product Will Include Rwanda
You cannot claim that you cannot afford a trip to our region while considering the budget you would invest in a city weekend…
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Gorilla Highlands Cooking in Slovenia
Our rolex recipe got published in Slovenske novice, the biggest Slovenian daily, a fortnight ago. This newspaper reaches over 300,000 people on an average day, so having a full page devoted to our speciality and the Gorilla Highlands project leader is a not a small deal. Every time we put the two special words “Gorilla” and “Highlands”…
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