{"id":334,"date":"2017-02-20T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T06:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:48:16","slug":"bakwate-mountain-gorilla-visits-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/bakwate-mountain-gorilla-visits-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakwate the mountain gorilla visits London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bakwate is a silverback, one of the mountain gorillas in Uganda, he is in the Oruzogo habituated group that lives in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park<\/a>. Sarah-Jane Mee hosted Tim Henshall a wildlife<\/a> expert at the SkyNews studios in London together with a part-animatronic mimic of Bakwate. He was being controlled externally by a professional actor that has studied gorillas for months and now knows the behaviour of the gorillas. Thus looking real, just like Bakwate.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the visit was to create awareness of the Mountain Gorillas<\/a>. The everage number of Mountain Gorillas<\/a> in the world is 900, 600 living in Uganda. Mountain Gorillas<\/a> were once instinct until conservation started helping including the different organizations that reach out to help.<\/p>\n

Bakwate\u2019s family has had a baby boom in the last couple of months, meaning the conservation is breaking the extinction of Mountain Gorillas<\/a>. Tim Henshall states that tourism has greatly helped conserve these beautiful creatures. This is in a way that, when tourists come to see the gorillas, the natives get employed and take care of the forests where the gorillas stay<\/a>. Therefore the money used to pay for the Gorilla permits goes out to the community that helps conserve the environment of the gorillas.<\/p>\n

The silverback was then taken to be shown at the Trafalgar square and then to the Destination show at Olympia, London until Sunday. To book a Mountain Gorilla tour<\/a> in Uganda<\/a> and Rwanda<\/a> visit<\/a> or (Click Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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