Category: Our People
Our Stories:
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My Commitment to Nabanga
Jambo sana! I am Amy Porter, a wildlife behavioural ecologist and conservation biologist with a special love of primates and birds. I am from the US (Pacific Northwest) but I have worked all over the world, and recently I spent four years studying Grauer’s gorillas and bonobos and working on community conservation projects in the…
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Fresh News from Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Hello, Planet Earth, My name is Moses Turinawe and I am the tourism warden of Uganda’s smallest park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. One of my duties is to inform the world about what Mgahinga offers, so it will be a pleasure to periodically update you on the Gorilla Highlands Experts platform. With my Rwandan colleague…
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Early Light
16mm, f/8, 1/500s, ISO250 The Gorilla Highlands region is, as the name suggests, characterised by its rather hilly topography. This is one of my favourite landscape photos from there, taken at around 4,000 meters/ 13,100 ft above sea level during an exhausting hike up Mt Kirisimbi. Miha joined me shortly afterwards, while Izy was wise…
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Edirisa Evenings
19mm, f/6.3, 1/5s, ISO400 I like simplicity in photographs, but sometimes simplicity can be found even in busy backgrounds. Here, the contrasting colors of the fire from the rest of the image immediately brings the viewer’s attention to it and the people sitting around it. This is perhaps my favourite image from Edirisa on Lake…
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Grumpy Silverback
Hi! I’m Marcus Westberg, a longtime Gorilla Highlands collaborator. I’m originally from Sweden, but work as a photojournalist all over the world — though Africa is where my heart is. For the foreseeable future, I’ll be posting a mostly-weekly column focusing on some of my favorite images and experiences from the Gorilla Highlands region, usually…
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Aroma of Fresh Coffee, a Powerful Force
I am Julius Wetala, a coffee experience creator and specialised guide, based in Uganda’s southernmost town, Kisoro. I have lived with coffee for over 30 years, first as a boy working on a family coffee farm, and in recent years as an organic coffee project manager. (If you wish to read more about my background or…
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Weekly Companion — Let It Be Then?
This video has been uploaded to YouTube because countless night attempts using our private solution (Vimeo) haven’t worked out… But, on the other hand, this is also OK. Let’s have it on YouTube and publicly available then. It may not be an ideal representation of a video promoting GHE to the general audience (this version…
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Emma’s Gorilla Tracking Field Report
Hello members! I hope this finds you well, l am called Emmanuel Harerimana, the Gorilla Highlands Expert from Volcanoes National Park! My job is the one of a park guide and I have the honour of visiting mountain gorillas about three times each week. To keep Rwanda’s most valuable animal safe in the pandemic, I…
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Rwebandira’s 27 Hours of Your Sweet Memories
The end of this video gives me goosebumps. The words are spoken by Festo Karwemera, the Bakiga cultural warrior who passed away last year… Karwemera nicknamed me Rwebandira two decades ago, after knowing me for only a short time. Yet he couldn’t have been more prescient… He translated the name for me as a “trailblazer”…
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