These reserves form an important ecological corridor between the two national parks and are reported to be home to a significant population of Grauer’s gorillas. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is working in collaboration with three community-based reserves located between Maïko and Kahuzi-Biega National Parks – Réserve des Gorilles de Utunda et Watsa (REGOUWA), Réserve des Gorilles de Punia (RGPU), and La Conservation Communautaire de la Réserve Forestière de Bakano (COCREFOBA). Thorne Foundation and other donors and members of DFGFI. This program is funded through the generosity of the Turner Foundation, the Daniel K. The Fossey Fund’s new Grauer’s Gorilla Conservation and Research Program in DRC aims to assess the numbers and stability of the current population in the region, as well as to study and protect them. As a result, much less is known about this subspecies. There is no current census of their population numbers, and according to some estimates, there may be as few as 4,000 individuals left in the wild. In contrast to mountain gorillas, which have been studied in Rwanda at the Fossey Fund’s Karisoke Research Center for some 45 years, there are fewer habituated Grauer’s groups that researchers can observe in the vast forests of eastern DRC. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International (DFGFI) has expanded its efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to build a new Grauer’s Gorilla Conservation and Research Program, which is dedicated to research, monitoring, and protection of the Grauer’s (formerly eastern lowland) gorilla.
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