From field documentation to global narrative.
We measure success not by volume of content, but by the difference that content makes. Policies adopted, resources mobilised, communities heard.
20+
Hugo Members Documented
15
Field Trackers Documented
4
Gorilla Families Followed
2
Coverage Pillars Active
Inside the work of gorilla conservation
Our inaugural field project documented the gorilla habituation and monitoring teams in the Buhoma sector. These are the people who form the daily backbone of Uganda's most celebrated conservation success.
Before formally constituting as an organisation, our founding team undertook field documentation work in partnership with conservation practitioners in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, one of the world's most significant gorilla habitats and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over an extended period of field presence in the Buhoma sector, we produced video documentation and photographic records of the daily reality of gorilla conservation: the trackers who navigate dense forest before dawn, the gorilla families whose safety depends on their vigilance, and the extraordinary human effort, largely invisible to the outside world, that keeps these animals alive.
"This founding body of work established two things. First, that Uganda's environmental stories exist in extraordinary depth and are waiting to be told. Second, that our team has the relationships, field access, and creative capacity to tell them."
20+
Hugo Members Documented
15
Field Trackers Interviewed
4
Gorilla Families Followed
1
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Food Security & Land
Smallholder farmers under pressure, wetland agriculture conflict, seed sovereignty, nutrition, and the human dimension of land use decisions.
In parallel with our Bwindi gorilla documentation, our team documented food security programming in communities bordering conservation areas. We captured the realities of families receiving agricultural knowledge, inputs, and seedlings through buffer zone programmes. This work revealed a deep truth: food security, land use, and conservation outcomes are inseparably connected. It is a connection that rarely appears in either conservation media or food security reporting.
