Kwita Izina Rwanda: (2023 Rwanda’s) Gorilla Naming Ceremony

Kwita Izina Rwanda: (2023 Rwanda’s) Gorilla Naming Ceremony, Name a baby Mountain Gorilla Rwanda. Kwita Izina Rwanda: (2023 Rwanda’s) Gorilla Naming Ceremony is very exciting to do in Rwanda as you get  to Name a baby Gorilla that is newly born into the family at Volcnoes National Park.

The good news about conservation success is becoming rare nowadays. That’s why when it was recently announced that the population of the mountain gorillas living in the Virunga Mountains has increased; many conservationists must have opened the champagne to toast the news.

However, still, the African wildlife is still under threat. And we must address, as those concerned with conservation, what measures should be undertaken to save our natural environment.

At Volcanoes National Park, we believe that to save the endangered species like the mountain gorillas, we should work with people living alongside them. For the short period we have interacted with them through our operations, we have developed some set of principles we hope will forge a successful partnership.

This generation is presently witness to-and in several ways complicit in- mass extinction of species.

Those of us trying to save our biodiversity feel a compelling need to act, and quick. Driven by this passionate mission, several conservationists lobby to erect fences, enact more stringent legislation, and equip park rangers with guns. However, the killing of wildlife and depletion of forests still continue unabated.

In Africa, imposing laws, science or policies onto communities without taking into account their well-being has been rarely effective-let alone ethical or appropriate. In our frantic efforts to turn the tide and protect these endangered species plus their habitats, we sometimes have not paused to consider the way these interventions may affect the individuals who share these habitats-mostly economically vulnerable rural communities who rely on those very ecosystems.

While the government of Rwanda, for instance, through revenue sharing program has managed to involve the local community in conservation, in other parts of the continent, this has been rarely seen.

For instance, many countries enact laws that ban hunting, but did they actually ask the people what this would mean to them? Or even how restrictions on the use of land of protected areas would handicap their livelihoods, lives, and rituals? After successful mountain gorillas conservation now we have to celebrate baby gorillas born each year and give awareness to the world and we give them names which is called KWITA IZINA in Kinyarwanda

Gorilla naming

Rwanda hosts this annual, week-long program of activities each September to raise awareness and funds for the ongoing protection of the country’s mountain gorillas and the expansion of their habitat. One of the world’s most respected forums for conservation and sustainable tourism, Kwita Izina  includes a conference, workshops and the highlight – a naming ceremony for the gorillas born in the country’s Volcanoes National Park over the past year or so. Here, invited guests take to the huge, silverback-shaped bamboo stage and assign each gorilla with a carefully chosen name according to the baby’s behavior and unique character traits, and which Rwandans believe will encourage good fortune and play a prominent role in shaping the infants’ futures.

The festivities – which include traditional music, dancing and performances from local students and artists – attract thousands of visitors each year, with conservationists, rangers and communities; international celebrities, dignitaries and the country’s President attending the ceremony near the town of Kinigi, at the foothills of the Virunga Massif. The mountain gorillas born each year in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park are named at the annual Kwita Izina ceremony.

According to John Murphy in an article titled “Does Community Involvement in Conservation Provide an Alternative to Fortress Conservation?”  that appeared in an online journal ALERT,  “over the last two decades one type of initiative in particular that has captured the imagination of conservationists has been based on the concept of incorporating the communities themselves into formal structures for regulating and managing wildlife and habitat. “as it happening now in Rwanda about gorilla conservation and real meaning of Kwita izina

You too can be part of the wildlife conservation efforts. Let us all join hand to ensure that we preserve our nature at its pristine for now and our future generation.