The discounted gorilla tracking permits promotion initiated by the management of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to enable East Africans and Foreign residents to enjoy the same gorilla tracking experience at reduced rates successfully ended on May 31, 2013. Records indicate that the promotion attracted thousands of visitors to not only track the mountain gorillas in
All gorilla conservation friends will be delighted to know that the Bitukura family number has grown with a member more has a new birth has been registered. Ruhara, an Adult Female has given birth to a baby much to the delight of the entire family of Bitukura and gorilla friends. The group size is surely
Laura Sonnino,94, from Italy on March 14,2013 became the oldest person to have tracked mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in South western Uganda . Born on 20/5/1919, Laura Sonnino successfully tracked the Nkuringo Gorilla Family where she viewed the playful apes. Laura says she had tried to track Gorillas in Buhoma in 2002
One of the senior adult female mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Bwiruka has died barely three months after the oldest male, Ruhondeza of Mubare Group passed on. She was known to be playful, friendly and even cheeky, but sadly, at the age of about 30, Bwiruka, a female gorilla has died. One of
It is with great sadness that UWA management announces the demise of Ruhondeza the oldest gorilla silverback and leader of the first habituated tourism gorilla family in Uganda – Mubare in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP). He succumbed to death yesterday afternoon after a four month spell in solitary life. Ruhondenza as he is fondly
