What does being the Bushmeat and Forests Conservation Programmes Manager involve?
I co-ordinate conservation programmes focusing on areas in Western Central Africa such as Gabon, Democratic republic of Congo and also areas in Cameroon, Ghana and Madagascar. What is ZSL’s involvement with the mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo? There are only 700 of the subspecies of mountain gorillas left in the wild and ZSL work with the Congolese park managers to protect them. There have been the photographs in the newspaper recently of 4 dead mountain gorillas that had been shot, this is the third incident of this type this year. The photographs showed a silverback male, a pregnant female, and two other females. ZSL work in the Democratic Republic of Congo as one of nine conservation groups and were part of the team that helped to co-ordinate the emergency response to these shootings. As a result the patrolling of the park has been increases for 3 months. The ZSL website is being used to raise funds for this emergency response and people have been very generous
