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Lyndsey Gale - Conservationist
Conservationist, Lyndsey Gale, took to the sofa to answer your questions about tracking gorillas in Gabon.
What do you do?
I helped to develop the Mikongo Conservation Centre in Gabon. My main aim was to develop gorilla and forest ecotourism by protecting the forest and finding out as much as we could about the habits of western lowland gorillas in the wild through survey work and monitoring gorilla health. I was also responsible for organizing funding in the UK to allow the project to continue.
What did you do everyday in Gabon?
Every day we would track the gorillas, starting at dawn, when the gorillas were still sleeping and then tracking them through the day until they made their last nest of the day. Tracking itself means following the clues left by the gorillas throughout the forest such as nests, prints, food and poo and listening out for chest beats.
