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Over the next few posts I’ll share with you pictures made by our With pencil and paper, students from all three classes follow Eric’s instruction on There are 740 mountain gorillas remaining in the world today with half of the population in the Virunga Forest and the other half in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. 70% of these mountain gorillas are visited by tourists each year. The Virunga Forest - Parc National des Vocans (PNV) - consists of 125 Km2 of mountain forest and six Virunga Volcanoes: Karisimbi, Visoke, Mikeno, Sabyinyo, Gahinga, and Muhabura. Genetic similarity between people and gorillas is around 98%.
Rwanda, where our art classes are being held, is a poor rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in mainly subsistence agriculture. A few of the environmental issues are deforestation, overgrazing, soil exhaustion, soil erosion and widespread poaching.
AIDS-HIV transmission, malaria, and tuberculosis are threatening diseases prevalent in Rwanda. So are food or waterborne diseases such as diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever.
There is strong evidence suggesting that many primate species are susceptible to many of the infections that humans are afflicted with and that the transmission of infection can occur in both directions. Please stay tuned for Fahad’s instruction of more VIRUNGA FOREST ANIMALSl! Julie
6 Comments posted on "GORILLAS:Animals of the Virunga Forest"
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL on April 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Julie, I’m always learning something when I visit your blog, right along with your students. Beautiful drawings of our gorillas! Thank you.
julie (Art for Gorillas) on April 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Hi Theresa, You are most welcome any day to draw with us. Julie
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL on April 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Julie, funny you mention that. I tried drawing my hand from one of your earlier exercises. Let’s just say, I need a lot of practice!!! Can’t wait to see the globe when it is finished.
Lucia Cristiana, Brasil on April 17th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Julie, your job is really fantastic. Theresa and all you, I want to share good news from Project R&R. According Theodora Capaldo, the Great Ape Protection Act was introduced today by U.S. Representatives Edolphus Towns (D-NY), David Reichert (R-WA), Jim Langevin (D-RI), and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD.) With strong bi-partisan leadership, the bill seeks to end invasive biomedical research and testing on all great apes in U.S. laboratories and to release all federally owned great apes into permanent sanctuary. God bless them. It is a very important step to ban torture, isn’t?
Lucia Cristiana, Brasil on April 17th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Theresa, please, check follow link to call your legislator to help pass that bill http://www.releasechimps.org
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL on April 18th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Thanks, Lucia, I will! Post a comment
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