Gearing up 4 Gorillas

A very ‘Happy Christmas’ to all G4G friends and supporters.

May 2009 bring you all you wish for yourself.

G4G has big plans for 2009, the ‘Year of the Gorilla’.

Watch for the new web site…..

Enjoy the festive break and many thanks for all your support throughout 2008.

See you in the New Year!

Linda & all trustees of G4G

The UN has declared 2009 to be the ‘Year of the Gorilla’.

G4G is working on ideas for events and special activities to mark this coming year.

The new G4G web site will be launched for the New Year so look out for lots more information and ways to help.

Now the rangers are back in the Mikeno gorilla sector, they will need even more support to rebuild their patrol posts and re-equip having lost much to the fighting.

Working through G4G, you can provide equipment for the rangers that cannot be found easily in Africa, such as trucks, mtn bikes, medical supplies and binoculars to name a few.

 With your help, G4G is the UK ‘arm’ of Virunga National Park…….

Let’s have whole great year of fundraising events - across the UK - and make 2009 a very special year.

If you’d like to plan a G4G fundraising event or sponsored activity for this coming year, let us know and we’ll put it on our 2009 online calendar for all to see on the new site. Email linda@g4g.co.uk 

Watch out for the new site!

Linda, G4G

The rangers in Virunga are continuing to undertake the gorilla census after 14 long mths. Both the umba and Kabirizi gorilla families have been found and the individuals are being checked and double checked by their noseprints - each gorilla has a unique noseprint, just the same as our fingerprints.

Rangers hope to move further north before Xmas to find the habituated groups near Jomba. This will hopefully include G4G’s Mambo. He is the son of Mapuwa and should be a strapping 8 or 9 year old blackback now. Everything crossed, in the hope that the Mapuwa family has survived the fighting.

www.gorilla.cd from Virunga National Park is now carrying ‘profiles’ of the various gorilla families. It’s work in progress but gives a fascinating insight into the groups and their dynamics - as gorillas change groups or a silverback leaves to start his own family.

 News of Mambo as it arrives….

Linda, G4G