Renewal in Rwanda: Multimedia package for The Des Moines Register
A series examining Rwanda's efforts to build an eco-friendly economy after genocide, and an Iowa-based initiative that's leading the way.
About the series
Des Moines Register reporter Perry Beeman visited Rwanda for five weeks on a grant from the International Reporting Project. In this multi-part interactive package Beeman examines Rwanda's efforts to build an eco-friendly economy after genocide, and an Iowa-based initiative that's leading the way.
*Articles and photos, unless indicated, by Perry Beeman. Videos courtesy of Great Ape Trust.
Click here to view the multimedia package as it appears on The Des Moines Register web site. (Site by Michael Corey, Craig Johnson and Kelli Morris.)
Part 1
Fighting for a forest on the brink
A team of Iowans and Rwandans has launched an experiment that could be a global model. Read the main story...
"¢ Gishwati team is an eclectic group
"¢ Gorillas inspired Ape Trust's founder
Part 2
A new, green day for Rwanda
The post-genocide nation is making a name for itself as an unlikely eco-leader.
Read the main story...
"¢ Rwanda works to power up with clean energy
"¢ President is committed to environment
Part 3
Much progress, but many challenges
Contradictions pervade the government's effort to pull off ambitious plans to modernize the nation with an eco-friendly economy. Read Perry Beeman's column
"¢ Moments from trip: Perry Beeman's reflections
Videos
Tracking wild chimps through the forest
Reporter Perry Beeman goes on a 10.5-hour chimp trek through Gishwati Forest as scientist Rebecca Chancellor looks for evidence of the endangered chimps she's studying.
Saving Rwanda's Gishwati Forest
Perry Beeman and Great Ape Trust conservation director Ben Beck explain why Iowans are working to save Gishwati Forest, the chimps that live there, and the livelihoods of villagers.
Rwandan students promote conservation
Des Moines Register reporter Perry Beeman tells you about Kinihira students' school assignment - singing, dancing or performing dramas based on the work to conserve Gishwati Forest.
More video
Mountain gorillas of Volcanoes National Park
Origins of Gishwati Area Conservation Project
Chimps in Gishwati
More chimps in Gishwati
Explanation of "Forest of Hope"
Primatologist Jane Goodall on differences between humans and chimps
Books
"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda," Philip Gorevitch.
Follow up article: Philip Gourevitch, A Reporter at Large, "The Life After," The New Yorker, May 4, 2009, p. 37
"Rwanda: the Bradt Travel Guide" by Janice Booth & Philip Briggs
"In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas," by Bill Weber and Amy Vedder.
"In the Aftermath of Genocide," by former U.S. ambassador to Rwanda Robert Gribbin
"The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amid a Pile of Bones," by Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana.
"A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It," by Stephen Kinzer.
Web sites
Great Ape Trust
Earthpark
President Paul Kagame official site
Jane Goodall Institute
Republic of Rwanda
International Reporting Project
Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
African Wildlife Foundation
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Perry Beeman blog
Art of Conservation Inc.
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
Click here for the full multimedia package as it appears on The Des Moines Register web site.
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- Tracking wild chimps through the forest
- Moments from the trip: Perry Beeman’s reflections
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- President Kagame is committed to environment
- Rwanda works to power up with clean energy
- A new, green day dawns in war-wracked Rwanda
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