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New Rules to Guarantee a Friendly Place
Welcome, newcomer! And great to see you again, old friend! Let me thank each and everyone who has joined our beautiful community so far. I hope more and more good people all over the world take a seat around our digital campfire. With the publication of the Gorilla Highlands Experts community rules, we are reaching…
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6-Month Review: Successes, Failures and Ambitions
On Sunday it will be six months since we launched the Gorilla Highlands Experts platform — and based on lessons learned we are about to chart the way forward. First of all, let us remind ourselves about the guidelines we set for ourselves: storytelling to inform, de-stress and entertain our members. This article is part…
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Anything Still There in the Nyiragongo Crater?
Don’t miss: a photo gallery in the Guardian and a video on Africanews bring a welcome visual update from the top of Nyiragongo. Last month’s eruption has emptied the lava lake (the left side of the featured image) but some red-hot residue remains at the bottom of the crater. The days of Nyiragongo as a…
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The Duuka
Growing up in the Gorilla Highlands, we watched the TV and saw pictures from the rest of the world. These images fired up our imaginations, and oh how we day-dreamed of America and England! In our minds these were the closest to heaven life on Earth could possibly get. We believed everything they had was…
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Era of Regular In-Sights Begins
When the concept of Gorilla Highlands Experts was finalised almost a year ago, it was based on In-Sights. That was the name we chose for something creative and insightful to be built on an online course platform. We didn’t want it to feel like school, just use the format of “lessons” building upon each other.…
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Groups: Why We Have Them & How To Enjoy Them
We strive to serve you a vast variety of content on the Gorilla Highlands Experts platform, but sometimes you may want more of what especially touches you. That’s why we have groups for our members! Want to identify a bird you just saw? Ask your fellow Birders. The group leader is Charlotte who wrote in…
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We Are In the Washington Post
We interrupt our regular programming because having an article about us published in the Washington Post is a big deal. It had taken many years to make something like this happen! Henry Wismayer, the article author, has been to our region several times. He even met Marcus Westberg here, our photographer who would become his…
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Our Focus: Build the Foundation
Dear GHE members, We are pleased that we have registered almost 100 users so far, and are impressed and encouraged by the spectrum of backgrounds you represent. We believe this platform will eventually be huge and successfully inform, de-stress and entertain all kinds of people. Nevertheless, as we leave the Early Bird phase behind we…
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We Have Been Written About
This is an honour. One of the most prominent men in the responsible travel movement, the author of the Responsible Tourism book, has written about us. In his article for Travel Tomorrow Harold Goodwin highlights the storytelling aspect of our work and quotes Mari’s recent blog extensively. It is worth noting that Goodwin’s piece points…
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