Virtual Gorilla Tracking Introduced in
The Director of Tourism, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) Mahoro Eunice explained virtual Gorilla Tracking which involves stationing of cameras within The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park so that trackers will only be able to track Gorillas with the help of Global Positioning Systems. (GPS) coordinates.
She said all this will be possible but one has to log on onto a website www.friendgorilla.org. This website will work same way as face book, My space and Twitter. Once you befriend a gorilla you will be interacting with your gorilla friend on a weekly basis and you will get updates on the movements of your gorilla friend in Bwindi
All one will need to do is pay one dollar or an equivalent in Ugandan shillings using any mobile telephone network.
It will be done in such away that, once one buys or befriends a gorilla(s), they will be able to follow births, new relationships and the genealogy of your gorilla friend all life long. Though you don’t have to be on the social network site, you can track your Gorilla friend on www.friendgorilla,org site by going to the web page Goetrack. Mahoro explained that come 24th September, 2009, the Nshongi group Gorilla family will be lunched by tracking this biggest family of Gorillas with 34 individual members which has been habituated for tracking recently.
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