Baraza

Category: Uncategorized, WildlifeDirect news | Date: Mar 03 2009 | By: baraza

A recent visit of the WildlifeDirect team to Rwanda (Thanks to the MacArthur Foundation),  gave the team and bloggers (and potential bloggers) an opportunity to put faces to the names they have been seeing appended to the mails. Having been a blogger for a few months (Albertine rift birds), I was recruited to support the WildlifeDirect project that is working in the Albertine Rift. On this occasion, I was among the team mainly as a “field guide” in the country of a thousand hills, Rwanda.

               “country of a thousand hills over the horizon”

Having had an enjoyable time at Bwindi, we were escorted by our cab driver, Habib to the border of Uganda and Rwanda. From here we took a kigali bound bus. Here things changed from left to right and the driver driving at a maximum speed of 40 km/h (it would be twice as fast in Kenya). Yes, it would be probably be a trip around more than a thousand hills.

Kigali City

After enjoying an evening and a night at the clean, safe Kigali city, we embarked on the main activity of visiting and sharing our mission with conservationists in the country. This took us from Kigali to Ruhengeri and further to Gisenyi (Goma). We realized how interesting biodiversity conservation work in the country is. One easily concludes that this country has very interesting biodiversity but the threats are huge too.The team was well received and all organizations promised to use the Wildlifedirect platform to enhance and improve their conservation work.

 Gift from Paula to Julie (Art for Conservation)

Vincent(AoC Volunteer) with Enoch, Victor and Masumi at AoC tree Nursery.

Tags: Albertine Rift, Biodiversity conservation, MacArthur Foundation, Rwanda

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