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Mountain gorillas killed
Topic Started: Jan 19 2007, 02:49 AM (55 Views)
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Rebels in eastern Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, conservationists said Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, sparking fears more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region. Only about 700 mountain gorillas remain in the world, 380 of them spread across a range of volcanic mountains straddling the borders of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda in Central Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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Richard Leakey, a conservationist credited with helping end the slaughter of elephants in Kenya during the 1980s, said:
"The survival of these last remaining mountain gorillas should be one of humanity's greatest priorities.
Their future lies with a small number of very brave rangers risking their lives with very little support from the outside world."

http://story.news.ask.com//article/20070118/D8MNC5400.html
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I can't begin to say how sad this makes me. I've followed the work of Leakey and his "angels" (Dianne Fossey--gorillas, Birute Mary Galdikas--orangutans, and Jane Goodall--chimpanzees) for years, and had hoped the world was beyond this sort of behavior.
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:kitti: :kitti:

Good afternoon jezzie and Vicki:

I had already read about this horrific act and it is heart breaking, to say the least. Those poor incredible animals............ :heart:.........so sad.

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