Artists for Gorilla Conservation

A well known 90 year old painting is being used to guide an expedition to find and paint mountain gorillas in Africa. Stephen C. Quinn, an award-winning artist who works at the American Museum of Natural History, will be retracing Carl Akeley’s footsteps into the wilds of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The expeditio...

Virunga Gorillas

If you like gorillas and conservation, there’s a video on the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International’s website that you must see.  It’s filmed in Rwanda, near or in th...

Snails vs Bushmeat

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN reports that people in many African countries eat bushmeat, which tends to be more readily available and cost l...