In a heartwarming addition to Rwanda’s thriving mountain gorilla population, a new baby gorilla was born to mother Umoja of the Hirwa group in Volcanoes National Park, as announced by Volcanoes Safaris on June 12th, 2025. The gorilla birth, captured in stunning photographs by local photographer Jean Marie Vianney Ndagiwenimana, brings the total number of […]
Rwanda will celebrate this year’s World Gorilla Day by naming 24 baby mountain gorillas born during the last 12 months in the 17th edition of the Kwita Izina ceremony taking place virtually on 24 September 2021. Kwita Izina, a uniquely Rwandan ceremony introduced in 2005 with the aim of creating awareness of conservation efforts for […]