Rwanda: Primatologist Jane Goodall to Help Promote Rwanda's Chimpanzees

Dr. Jane Goodall, a renowned British primatologist, ethnologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace, From Tanzania, she paid a visit to Rwanda before traveling to the DRC and later Burundi.

Goodall is taken as the world's best expert on chimpanzees, and she is well known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania. Over the years, she has made some pivotal discoveries, for example the use of apparatuses by the primates (e.g. using sticks to get termites in a hole), which constrained researchers to reexamine their perspectives on animals conduct.

Her work spins around inspiring activity in the interest of endangered species, particularly chimpanzees, and encouraging people to do their part to make the world an improved place for people, animals, and the environment surrounding us.

Goodall has likewise established the Jane Goodall Institute, which was contracted by Rwanda Development Board (RDB) to help survey the status of habituation of chimpanzees in Gisovu region, which is situated in the northern part of Nyungwe National Park and consists of unique tourism products like the furthest Source of the Nile, birding, tea tourism and views of tea plantation landscapes, the dark green mountains of Nyungwe forest and Lake Kivu.

In a joint effort with Nyungwe Nziza venture and with the backing of the Jane Goodall Institute, RDB needs to transform Nyungwe National Park into a practical ecotourism objective and also generate sustainable and equitable income for local communities and other stakeholders.

The Institute will additionally give an arrangement for enhancing habituation and directing skills and technical support for expanding staff limit and enlarging the habituation process in the Gisovu Sector. This will help to integrate the chimpanzee product into the overall Gisovu tourism plan.

The Jane Goodall Institute has as of recently finished the appraisal on current advance, future potential and other chimpanzee habituation efforts to-date and an audit of the system of the existing trails, and recommendations for the improvement of new trails depend upon chimpanzees' home range. The procurement of chimp trackers and guides, IT equipment and reference materials has likewise been finished.

The next stage will be the execution of the Chimpanzee Tourism Development Plan that includes proceeded provision of guidance and expertise on the best utilization of IT equipment.