Critter News

JANUARY 27, 2009

Surprisingly, the mountain gorillas have prospered under the rule of the Congo rebels. In contrast, the 2007 murders of 10 gorillas occurred under the Congolese government's control. The new tally brings the Virunga mountain gorillas to an estimated 211—including 10 babies born during the rangers' absence.

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Critter News

MAY 29, 2009

Uganda is seeing a growth in tourism dollars from visits to see its mountain gorillas. There are only about 700 mountain gorillas left in the world. Tags: developing countries africa economic development ecotourism uganda gorillas. This is very important. Lets hope it continues to flourish. Lets hope it continues to flourish.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Cameroon, with one of Africa’s highest rates of deforestation, has set up a new national park to protect gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants and a rare type of antelope called bongo. Tags: conservation africa park gorillas endangered species cameroon.

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MAY 4, 2009

A baby lowland gorilla was rescued from smugglers on Sunday, April 24. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling trafficking congo gorillas endangered species. There has unfortunately been an increase in smuggling attempts in the Congo. Here is an article about it. Look at the face of the baby when it's revealed.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Good long article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the mountain gorillas in Virunga. Tags: virunga congo gorillas endangered species.

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APRIL 19, 2009

Back in February, a three-year-old gorilla was caught in a poacher's snare meant for antelope. Here's the story from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund website. Tags: rwanda africa animal rescue poaching gorilla. Fortunately, wildlife staff from the Karisoke Research Center discovered it and it's okay now.

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MAY 22, 2009

Habitat destruction is a very serious threat to the mountain gorilla. The 2009 Year of the Gorilla (YoG) partnership is supporting a project enabling local residents in areas endangered by increasing demands for fuel – not least the Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to buy low-cost, fuel-efficient stoves.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The Rangers in Virunga can continue their daily routines of removing poachers snares (536 snares were found during the recent census taking), filming newborn gorillas and simply enjoying the results of their tremendous sacrifices to protect the gorillas. We have finger prints, gorillas have nose prints. And did you know.

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MARCH 21, 2009

the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund "Coins for Congo" program. The mountain gorillas have a special place in my heart (awwwwww!). Tags: virunga poverty economic development congo gorillas. They are also the most logical. Here's an example. These guys are a great group and I've been a member for several years.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. Tags: virunga war congo gorillas endangered species. Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. Mai Mai rebels are described as community-based militia groups frequently involved in banditry. Here is a brief Youtube video of him.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

I signed up yesterday to get email alerts from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Tags: virunga congo gorillas. I called the fund and spoke to the front desk person who said this was the best way to get updates from them about the situation in the Congo. I am so worried about these animals.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The rebels insist the gorillas are safe. “We Tags: virunga war congo gorillas. This New York Times article doesn't have much new to report. I did notice this though. Officials with Virunga National Park are urging the rebels and government troops to allow them to return to work. In the meantime.

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JULY 24, 2009

Tags: africa bush meat congo gorillas endangered species cameroon.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Tags: wildlife trafficking united nations bush meat congo gorillas.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a video of the gorillas and the babies (be patient, it tends to start and stop). Tags: virunga congo gorillas endangered species. Answering gunfire rattled up from the valley, in what a ranger said was a clash between the CNDP and the Rwandan Hutu rebels based in the park.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Also, find some practical and down to earth travel advices for the Mountain “Gorilla Highlands” region (southern Uganda and northern Rwanda) in this pdf brochure (40 Mb). Cover photo: volcanoes in the Mgahinga Gorilla National park seen from the Mutanda Lake. Photo by Marcus Westberg / Gorilla Highlands.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Mountain Gorillas are best observed in Uganda or Rwanda And to avoid – currently, one needs to be very cautious if planning a trip to Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (the People’s Republic or Congo-Brazzaville is however safe), Burundi, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and a few other unstable nations.

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JUNE 13, 2021

You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. They can spend a little more money and effort, and get an Exhibitor Permit for public display. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Excellent sites for seeing this beauty include Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park in Uganda and Ghana’s Kakum National Park. Excellent locations for finding this bird include Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park and the forests cloaking Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

And of course, the 500-lb gorilla in blue, the Triangle, whose advantages with regard to number of birders are legion. Green is what is known as the Unifour counties, on the cusp of the mountains and even getting up in elevation on the western end.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

The imprisonment of the Rangers comes after a lengthy trial in the North Kivu province courts initiated after the July 2007 massacre of 5 mountain gorillas that was met with outrage around the globe. The charges included the massacre of the gorillas and involvement in the illegal charcoal trade.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

The gorilla rangers have returned to Virunga after more than a year's exile. Tags: virunga congo gorillas. You can see how happy they are in this video.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The 700 remaining mountain gorillas are safe because they are out of the lava's path, but about 40 endangered chimpanzees and other animals living in the area are directly threatened. Tags: natural disaster chimpanzees virunga africa congo gorillas.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2008

A Congolese minister says that "In 2007 alone, we recorded the slaughter of 15 mountain gorillas and more than 20,000 antelopes,".adding Tags: congo gorillas. adding that in the past decade the number of hippopotami had fallen from 30,000 to 1,000. 30,000 to 1,000? I don't have the words to react anymore.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Six thousand people (over 1,000 Congolese soldiers with their families) have left Virunga National Forest where so many of the remaining mountain gorillas live. Tags: virunga gorilla congo. This development is the result of an agreement between the army and the Congolese Wildlife Authority. You can donate to his family here.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I suppose I've come to this pretty late and gorilla people already knew that this trouble was brewing. The rebel forces in the Congo have controlled the gorilla sector of Virunga since 2007. Tags: virunga congo gorillas. Clearly, I haven't been following this as I should have been. So that leaves us with the UN and the EU.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

We've got to get the gorilla rangers back into Virunga. Tags: virunga congo gorillas endangered species. According to the AP. Security Council agreed Thursday to send 3,100 more peacekeeping troops to Congo, while rebels said they remained committed to a pullback from the front lines despite an army attack.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

In this case, someone confused a baby chimp with a baby gorilla. ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority) rangers received a tip-off that someone in Goma was trying to sell a baby gorilla. The rangers set up a sting operation, where one of them posed as a foreigner interested in buying the gorilla.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

The Congolese rangers protect the wildlife in Virunga National Park, the most famous inhabitants of which are the 700 remaining mountain gorillas. Tags: virunga rwanda africa congo gorillas endangered species. These rangers are very brave people with possibly the most dangerous jobs in the world.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Twins born in February, a rare event! Here's the link to some cute pictures! Eerie how similar to humans they appear.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Tags: virunga congo gorillas.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 4, 2009

Alex Halperin sent a link to this essay (of his) about Rwandan gorillas.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

At the London Zoo, three female gorillas gussy up for a visit from a handsome male gorilla brought in from nearby France. If the matchmaking goes well, the zoo hopes to welcome its first baby gorilla in more than 20 years. A new captive breeding program may be the cats’ last hope.

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DECEMBER 29, 2008

This situation sounds a lot like the the mountain gorillas, the Congo and Virunga National Park. Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savannah elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, have crashed to just 1,000 animals from an estimated 3,000 in 2006.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. Is this a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Under the new legislations, experiments on great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are to be banned and "strict" restrictions set on the use of primates in general.

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MAY 15, 2009

The European Parliament approves of the ban on testing on large primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans), which are threatened with extinction, except in experiments aimed at conservation of these endangered species. I really hope this passes.

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