Remember this from last year? This photo led tears to my eyes while reading last month's issue of NGM . Mountain gorillas are an endangered species with some 700 alive. Nearly half of these animals live in Virunga National Park which borders Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The gorillas are caught in the middle of the Congo’s ongoing civil war between militia groups and the Congolese Army. 700 remaining and counting down. Shameful conservation corruption.
Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?
Heavily armed militias shatter the stillness in this central African park. Desperate refugees crowd park boundaries. Charcoal producers strip forests. Then, last summer, someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures in cold blood.
1 comments:
nice piece...just like u i'd like to speak out about atrocities against the endangered lot...instead of wrapping my concerns in neat little packages
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