In October 2007 Volcanoes started building Kyambura Gorge Lodge near Queen Elizabeth National Park, in Uganda, a site we have been painstakingly putting together for 5 years. The original site had about 25 acres and we have since increased it to about 60 acres to protect the neighbouring areas of the Gorge as well as the site of an illegal brickworks which will be reconverted back to wetland. We expect to open the eco-lodge in June 2010 and details will be announced later. Nicole Simmons, a researcher from the USA, has been based at the Volcanoes site for two years, studying the threatened chimpanzee population of seventeen individuals in the pristine riverine forest of Kyambura Gorge in conjunction with the Uganda Wildlife Authority. Volcanoes is putting together a major long term Kyambura Gorge eco-tourism partnership project to see how best to help protect them further, by creating a buffer zone, by increasing benefits for the communities and by upgrading tourism facilities on which further details will be released.