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Mid of silverback gorilla grunting2. Close of silverback3. Mid of silverback grunting4. Wide of gorilla and baby in tree5. Pan down to Dr Martha Robbins and guide...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eBwindi Impenetrable Forrest, Uganda, 14th October 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of silverback gorilla grunting\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of silverback\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of silverback grunting\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of gorilla and baby in tree\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan down to Dr Martha Robbins and guide walking through tea fields \u003cbr/\u003e6. Set up Dr Robbins and scientist discussing census coverage \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martha Robbins, PHD. Primatologist at the Max Planck Institute, Germany:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The census we're conducting for the gorillas is one of the most important conservation activities we do for mountain gorillas. We do a census about once every 5 years, but this is the way that we can monitor the size of the population and also get some sort of measure of the effectiveness of conservation strategies that are being used in the park.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of scientists plotting course \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of writing \u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of scientists cutting path through forest \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martha Robbins, PHD. Primatologist at the Max Planck Institute, Germany:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Essentially we sweep through the forest. We have 6 teams of people starting in the east and moving to the west, and moving through very, very intensively looking for fresh gorilla trails, and then if they find these paths that the gorillas make when they're walking through the forest, we can track back to the nest sites that the gorillas make every night and we can count the number of nests that is made each night. We also collect faeces from the nests which we conduct genetic analysis on and we get a unique genetic identification for each gorilla in the population.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of gorillas \u003cbr/\u003e13. Pan down of UWA (Uganda Wildlife Authority) staff \u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of UWA staff \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of Pontius Ezuma, UWA Conservation manager for Biwindi and Mt Mgahinga national parks.\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDIBTE (English) Pontius Ezuma, UWA Conservation Manager, Biwindi and Mt Mgahinga National Parks:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our aim is to protect them for future generations and they must be there in perpetuity. So it is very important in that we need to know whether the population is increasing or reducing. There are a number of efforts that have been put in to ensure that they actually exist, so that way we are actually trying to evaluate ourselves, these interventions are they really having an impact or are they not?.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan from UWA guide to gorilla \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Dr Robbins office \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of sign reading: Institute of Tropical Forrest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Conservation Resource Centre donated by the Maria Gans Norbury Fund for Animals.\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martha Robbins, PHD. Primatologist at the Max Planck Institute, Germany:\u003cbr/\u003e\" OK so we collect faeces for a few different things, this is stored in silica gel that we use for the genetic analysis that is the best way of storing it and then these other samples, some of it will be used for parasite analysis, and the rest will be a different type of genetic work but looking for viruses.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of test tubes \u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Martha Robbins, PHD. Primatologist at the Max Planck Institute, Germany:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So this is a map of the entire park and at the moment we're about half way through, we started in the East here, and at the moment the teams are all working at about this region right here, so we're about half way point in time and about half way point in covering the forest. So we should be able to finish it in the time we had planned.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of forest.\u003cbr/\u003eScientists are trawling through the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda, hunting for gorillas. \u003cbr/\u003eThey are conducting a census to check the state of the mountain gorilla population. \u003cbr/\u003eThe mountain gorilla is king of beasts in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.\u003cbr/\u003eHigh in the volcanic region of Western Uganda the forest is a world Heritage site and a major tourist attraction.\u003cbr/\u003eOnce every 5 years, the park also becomes a centre of major scientific research.\u003cbr/\u003eDr Martha Robbins of the Max Planck institute in Germany is a primatologist.\u003cbr/\u003eShe's currently working with 6 teams of scientists from across East Africa to conduct a gorilla census, the results of which will indicate whether the great apes in this region are on the increase or not.\u003cbr/\u003eThe last recorded census in 2006 indicated there were 302 gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi and Mt Mgahinga National Parks.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is the second year Dr Robbins and her teams are using genetic analysis to improve accuracy in the data collected. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The census we're conducting for the gorillas is one of the most important conservation activities we do for mountain gorillas, we do a census about once every 5 years, but this is the way that we can monitor the size of the population and also get some sort of measure of the effectiveness of conservation strategies that are being used in the park,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe census is conducted with military precision. The park measures 331 squared kilometres and the 6 teams camp out for days, even weeks, collecting gorilla faeces and counting the nests on the ground where the apes sleep. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Essentially we sweep through the forest, we have 6 teams of people starting in the east moving to the west, moving through very, very intensively looking for fresh gorilla trails, and then if they find these paths that the gorillas make when tracking through the forest we can track back to the nest sites that the gorillas make every night and we can count the number of nest sites that the gorillas make each night. We also collect faeces from the nests which we conduct genetic analysis on and we get a unique genetic identification for each gorilla in the population,\" says Robbins. \u003cbr/\u003eThese great apes create huge tourism revenues, with an estimated income of $4.4 million every year, with international visitors spending $500 each to get just one hour to view these majestic creatures.\u003cbr/\u003eGorillas have a poor immune system and are highly susceptible to stress. Tourists with any illness are turned away and group sizes are restricted to 8.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Uganda Wildlife Authority and the government take their prized possession very seriously and there is great pressure on the results that Dr. Martha and her team will deliver.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government has taken a number of measures to sensitise communities living around the parks, and while isolated incidents of poaching still occur, levels overall have dramatically reduced, snares used to trap small antelopes are occasionally found caught around gorillas.\u003cbr/\u003ePontius Ezuma is the conservation area manager of Bwindi and Mt Mgahinga National Parks:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our aim is to protect them for future generations and they must be there in perpetuity. So it is very important in that we need to know whether the population is increasing or reducing. 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