We were excited to find this article about Edwin Sabuhoro, a 32 year old Rwandan ‘adventurer, naturalist, educator, guide, tracker, ranger and conservationist’ who recently won an international award for launching Iby’IWACU Village, “a community-based ecotourism initiative that was designed to develop incentives for local people to protect gorilla habitats.”
Today, the outcomes of the project are astonishing. Local people own 100% of the project. The cultural village has increased tourism arrivals by 40% and has generated a sustainable income base for the village. Poaching of gorillas has been reduced by 60%.
