In Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, communities have shifted from poaching to conservation as tourism generates vital income. Named gorillas are treated with deep care, and reformed poachers now protect them, highlighting a powerful link between economic benefit and wildlife preservation

Bwindi: News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas have been given names, allowing rangers and others to humanise the animal’s suffering.

But widespread interest in protecting mountain gorillas also comes from the economic benefits of tourism that have turned poachers into conservationists, married women into porters and rangers into eloquent spokespeople for th

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