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

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

And the mountain gorillas are once again vulnerable. The rebels have taken over the wildlife rangers' headquarters and the gorillas are unprotected. About 200 of the 700 remaining mountain gorillas are in this forest. Tags: virunga africa gorilla war congo. Of course, there is more war in the Congo. Always, always, war.

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Critter News

JUNE 10, 2010

Tags: virunga gorillas.

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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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

Tags: africa bush meat congo gorillas endangered species cameroon.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Pretty amazing that the 7 mountain gorilla deaths recorded thus far in Virunga have all been due to natural causes. Tags: virunga gorilla congo. Remember that Virunga National Park has been under Congolese rebel control since 2007 and the park rangers have only just been allowed back in.

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Critter News

APRIL 30, 2010

Tags: wildlife trafficking united nations bush meat congo gorillas.

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Critter News

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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10,000 Birds

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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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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? According to cladists, every organism is a member of any group of organisms that includes it.

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Presumably birds account for an unknown percentage of the 59 thousand people hurt by animals who listed “other” (I mean, it isn’t like you could have many anaconda or gorilla accidents here).

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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We will trek to see Mountain Gorillas , seek out Shoebills , and hope to avoid being trampled by Hippopotami. You may remember back in 2017 when Nate participated in this trip or maybe you followed along in 2018 as the Birdchick dazzled us with her experiences there.

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Critter News

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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Critter News

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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Critter News

JANUARY 21, 2009

This from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund website. Tags: obituary africa gorilla. Shinda had been observed to be unwell for about two weeks when, on Nov. 22, our trackers could not find him within his group, probably because he was too weak to catch up with them. 24, but he had already died.

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4 The Love Of Animals

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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JANUARY 18, 2013

The American Museum of Natural History is a vast and beautiful edifice. It contains Andean Condors and Labrador Ducks , dinosaurs and mammoths, one of only two life-size models of a blue whale in the terrestrial world.

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Critter News

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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