{"id":15168,"date":"2014-06-30T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/10th-annual-kwita-izina-gorilla-naming-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T08:23:14","slug":"10th-annual-kwita-izina-gorilla-naming-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/10th-annual-kwita-izina-gorilla-naming-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Annual Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Ceremony Attracts EAC Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6246 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/goo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Rwanda Development Board (RDB) will host the 10th Annual Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Ceremony on July 1, 2014, in Kinigi, Rwanda. A week of festivities will precede the world-renowned event.}} <\/p>\n<p>An inventive \u201cName a Gorilla\u201d contest was also launched this month on Facebook to raise awareness of Kwita Izina and promote Rwanda\u2019s extraordinary conservation story among East African Community (EAC) residents. <\/p>\n<p>Participants are invited to propose a name for one of the 18 baby gorillas born this year with a chance of winning a trip for two to Rwanda if their name is selected.  <\/p>\n<p>Kwita Izina (which means \u201cgorilla name\u201d in the local Kinyarwanda language) is based on a centuries old Rwandan baby naming tradition. <\/p>\n<p>The celebration is designed to bring international attention to the endangered gorillas of the Virunga Mountains. Over the course of the past 9 ceremonies, 161 baby gorillas have been named.<\/p>\n<p> The theme for this year\u2019s milestone celebration is \u201cA Decade: Conserving \u2013 Empowering \u2013 Growing\u201d, highlighting the collaborative community approach to conservation that has led to 26.3% increase in the gorilla population since Kwita Izina debuted ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThe Kwita Izina 2014 theme reminds us of the indelible link between humans and gorillas. Every name given to a gorilla is part of our promise to provide them with freedom and safety in the wild. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cName a Gorilla\u201d contest is a way to extend this relationship to our neighbors in East Africa and invite them to be part of Rwanda\u2019s legacy of conservation,\u201d says Ambassador Yamina Karitanyi, Head of RDB\u2019s Tourism and Conservation Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Development Board (RDB) will host the 10th Annual Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Ceremony on July 1, 2014, in Kinigi, Rwanda. A week of festivities will precede the world-renowned event.}} An inventive \u201cName a Gorilla\u201d contest was also launched this month on Facebook to raise awareness of Kwita Izina and promote Rwanda\u2019s extraordinary conservation story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000052881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052881,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15168.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}