rmgp

Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Preservation

Regular monitoring of known individual mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) inhabiting the high-altitude forests of the Virungas has been conducted almost continuously since Dian Fossey established the Karisoke Research Center in 1967, despite decades of political instability and other threats to their conservation.

project description

While long-term field observations from the Karisoke study area have contributed substantially to our current knowledge of gorillas, research on their skeletal remains also has the potential to contribute significant and unique insight into the biology of these critically endangered great apes.

We have engaged in a collaborative effort to assist the Rwandan Office of Tourism and National Parks in the recovery and curation of existing skeletons of mountain gorillas from Rwanda’s Parc National des Volcans (dating from 1995-recent), and to help build local capacity for the long-term preservation and management of this collection as a resource for education and research.

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Dr. Timothy G. Bromage

Hard Tissue Research Unit

Department of Biomaterials & Biomimetics

New York University College of Dentistry

345 East 24th Street

New York, NY 10010-4086

USA

Dr. Friedemann Schrenk

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

Sektion Paläoanthropologie

Senckenberganlage 25

60325 Frankfurt

Deutschland

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Regular monitoring of known individual mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) inhabiting the high-altitude forests of the Virungas has been conducted almost continuously since Dian Fossey established the Karisoke Research Center in 1967, despite decades of political instability and other threats to their conservation.

While long-term field observations from the Karisoke study area have contributed substantially to our current knowledge of gorillas, research on their skeletal remains also has the potential to contribute significant and unique insight into the biology of these critically endangered great apes.

We have engaged in a collaborative effort to assist the Rwandan Office of Tourism and National Parks in the recovery and curation of existing skeletons of mountain gorillas from Rwanda’s Parc National des Volcans (dating from 1995-recent), and to help build local capacity for the long-term preservation and management of this collection as a resource for education and research.