Trackers and park rangers from Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo have started using the Global Positioning System (GPS) for the gorilla census exercise in the Virunga Volcanoes Region.
Enumerators followed a gorilla trail through Rwanda’s thick towering bamboos of Volcanoes National Park until they located the nest site, from where they carried out a scientific recording.
One of the gorillas in Rwanda holds her little baby in the National Volcanoes Park last year. Gorilla trackers now use GPS to count the number of gorillas. (Faustin Niyigena)
