Additional resources

If you or your students would like to explore the topic further, these additional resources will be useful.

• Video

  A video, ‘Baby Gorilla Bamboo Feast: Mountain Gorilla’ by BBC Earth, showing Mountain Gorillas feeding on the tender shoots of Bamboo and other plants to meet their dietary requirements.

• Reading

  A reading, ‘3.0 Mountain Gorilla Conservation and Climate Change’ from pages 22-26 of ‘The Implications of Global Climate Change for Mountain Gorilla Conservation in the Albertine Rift’ by the African Wildlife Foundation, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and EcoAdapt, to learn more about the taxonomy and distribution, ecology, diet, and the ranging pattern of Mountain Gorillas.

• Reading

  A report, ‘Bamboo: Africa’s untapped potential’ by Zipporah Musau, Department of Global Communications, United Nations on the potential of planting and utilization of Bamboo as a fast-growing and renewable natural resource across a wide variety of goods and services in Africa.

• Website

  A website of Bamboo for Good (B4G)- by Pacific Bamboo Resources- organization of international partners that work together to mobilize bamboo resources for good across East Africa and beyond.