Gorilla Conservation Coffee is an award-winning social enterprise of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH). It was launched after Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a wildlife veterinarian, conservationist and author working with gorillas, visited farmers living adjacent to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Here she learned that farmers were not being given a fair price for their coffee and were struggling hard to survive, causing them to depend on the national park to meet their basic family needs for food and fuel wood.
About Kanyonyi Coffee
Our coffee is 100% Ugandan grown premium Arabica that is selectively harvested for only red ripe cherries, hand picked, wet processed and dried under shade and tested for quality parameters at every level. The filter coffee is roasted medium and packed to the highest quality standards. Each cup has a unique aroma with hints of caramel, butter notes and almond, with a citrus taste and a sweet finish. Our first brand is named after Kanyonyi, the former lead silverback of the Mubare gorilla group located in Bwindi impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Coffee With A Cause
Gorilla Conservation Coffee pays a premium above market price to coffee farmers who are living next door to the gorillas around Bwindi impenetrable National Park, and further supports the farmers through training in sustainable coffee farming and processing. This helps to improv the coffee quality and increase production yield, which additionally helps to protect the endangered gorillas and their fragile habitat $1.50 from every kilogram of roasted branded coffee sold is donated directly to support Conservation through Public Health's work with gorillas and the local community.
What Makes Us Unique
Gorilla Conservation Coffee is the only Ugandan Coffee expressly created to help conserve the mountain gorillas by directly supporting farmers living around the gorillas' habitat in subcounties bordering Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Conservation through Public Health is working with Uganda Wildlife Authority, local communities and other organizations, to improve education, healthcare and livelihoods, so that humans and mountain gorillas - like Kanyonyi and his family - can coexist. Together, we can make a direct difference for smallholder farmers and endangered mountain gorillas.
