TubesCodeContent » conservation http://tubescodecontent.com Creating Media in Our Digital Age Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:26:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 If A Thousand Monkeys Tweeted http://tubescodecontent.com/2009/09/if-a-thousand-monkeys-tweeted/ http://tubescodecontent.com/2009/09/if-a-thousand-monkeys-tweeted/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:43:53 +0000 Michael Cervieri http://bmunch.tubescodecontent.com/?p=14 The New York Times is running a story by Reuters about how the Uganda Wildlife Authority is using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Blogging in an effort to help save the mountain gorilla.

The “Friend a Gorilla” campaign lets global gorilla fans access videos, pictures and, yes, tweets.

Organizers say the campaign is the first time social networking has been harnessed for conservation and hope it will generate $100,000 in the first three months and a further $350,000 within the first year.

Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to about 370 mountain gorillas, about half the world’s population.

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