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The travellers will volunteer to raise local awareness of gorilla conservation through cinema powered by the electricity generated from pedaling a stationary bicycle. The screenings will be documentaries donated to GAFI by National Geographic and the BBC. Over 10,000 children and adults in Uganda are set to attend the bike powered cinemas featured and funded by four of the project tours in July and October 2011. Travellers will get a sense of ownership over their holiday knowing that the cost of the trip helped educate thousands of children about gorilla.
Fostering gorilla relations with local people is focused on communities surrounding the Mgahinga and Bwindi National parks, which combined are home to over 5 habituated groups of gorillas and many other wild groups. In fact the area between Bwindi and Mgahinga is home to half the world's population of Mountain gorillas. Volunteer will also be given the opportunity to trek and see a population of wild Mountain gorillas, only 720 mountain gorillas are left in the wild, so to be a safe distance away from a group of gorillas led by a silver-back is a privilege. Volunteers will be led my local experts and we will be following IUCN guidelines surrounding gorilla tourism, such as wearing face masks in order to protect the gorillas from illness. Other tour operators may not take these measures but we intend to make this trek as safe as possible for the gorillas.
We are calling on all wildlife travellers to be part of this experience and help us use conservation films to bridge the gap between local people and gorilla who share the same vulnerable rainforest habitats. Travellers will leave the tour with a sense of global responsibility knowing that the cost their wildlife holiday helped educate thousands of children about gorilla and that they were in the thick of the action, making the difference.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
