{"id":683238,"date":"2026-01-08T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683238\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:13:22","slug":"prince-charles-to-name-gorillas-in-rwanda-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683238\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles to name gorillas in Rwanda event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Charles of Wales will on Friday name baby gorillas at Rwanda\u2019s annual conservation event Kwita Izina.<\/p>\n<p>The annually held Kwita Izina is a flagship event on Rwanda\u2019s tourism calendar which is derived from the traditional practice of naming babies in families.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince will be among 20-high profile personalities who will take part in the event.<\/p>\n<p>He will however participate virtually.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince was in Rwanda in June when he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).<\/p>\n<p>He has a known passion for conservation.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 18th edition of the Kwita Izina conservation event.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the ceremony has taken place in person since 2019 following the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are delighted to announce His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarenceHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@clarencehouse<\/a>) will name a baby gorilla virtually during the 18th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KwitaIzina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KwitaIzina<\/a> Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Join us to learn about gorilla conservation and the name he\u2019ll give to a baby mountain gorilla.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VisitRwanda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VisitRwanda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dRuegM9NNw\">pic.twitter.com\/dRuegM9NNw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kwita Izina (@Kwitaizina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kwitaizina\/status\/1564994358255943688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Charles of Wales will on Friday name baby gorillas at Rwanda\u2019s annual conservation event Kwita Izina. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-683238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115862018747857683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}