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Gautam Shah: Bringing wildlife into your life every day, anywhere, with games on your smartphone

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By Rupi Mangat

Above: Gautam (left) and Raff taking a break on the way to Goualougo Camp, Republic of Congo. Photo Credit David Morgan

Published: The East African Nation 30 May 2020

That there’s no time to lose to save our wildlife is a universal truth.

That the internet is the most powerful tool on Earth is another universal truth.

The two put together gave Gautam Shah, founder of Internet of Elephants his drive to enter the world of wildlife conservation in a novel way…via your mobile phone playing games to save wildlife.

IoE WV screens scenes from the game Wildeverse Photo Credit Internet of Elephants (409x800)
IoE WV screens scenes from the game Wildeverse Photo Credit Internet of Elephants

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At Kahuzi Biega in Search of the Endemic Grauer’s Gorilla in DR Congo

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Above: Life-size statue of Grauer’s gorilla at Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC. Copyright Rupi Mangat

Published: 13 July 2019

Part 2 of 2

While waiting for the great gorilla safari planned for the following day from Bukavu on the shores of Lake Kivu in the Albertine Rift, the taxi driver arrives for the chimpanzee sanctuary in Lwiro that is 50 kilometers away.

Rescued Chimpanzees at Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center. Copyright Rupi Mangat (800x600)
Rescued Chimpanzees at Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center. Copyright Rupi Mangat

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A ‘Selfie’ with Wildlife

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Above: Cruel taste – a sloth dressed in pink bow with a tourist. Wath the horrendous clip below on how the sloths are captured and put in sacks to be sold in the tourist trade

Published in The East African Nation media December 16, 2017

There’s a right way and the wrong way of doing it…as the recent case of two tourists trampled to death trying to get too close to an elephant … all for a ‘selfie’.

Selfies with wild animals have proliferated over the last two years on social platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter driving the suffering and exploitation for some of the world’s most iconic animals across the world, reads a new report titled Wildlife Selfies launched in Nairobi by the World Animal Protection whose loge reads – Protect animals globally.

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There’s a right way and the wrong way of doing it

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