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WORLD / Africa
Appeal for help after Congo gorilla massacre
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-08-17 13:53
Officials look at four dead mountain gorillas that were illegally killed
in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo during
the week of July 26 in this handout photo released by the International
Gorilla Conservation Programme on August 10, 2007.?[Reuters]?
LONDON -- Wildlife conservation experts appealed on Friday for funds to
help protect rare mountain gorillas in the eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo after four adults were found shot dead last month.
The Zoological Society of London said a special protection zone with
extra patrols had been set up in the area where the one dead silverback
male and three females were found, but funds were desperately needed to
help pay for it.
"The massacre of four mountain gorillas was a devastating tragedy and it
is now essential that we provide constant protection to the remaining
families," Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's Bushmeats and Forests Conservation
Program Manager, said.
"Shockingly, this is not the first time that gorillas in the park have
been slaughtered in this way and we are calling on the public to support
our appeal for funds to help us ensure that it does not happen again,"
she added.
The four were found dead in the southern sector of the Virunga National
Park which contains more than a fifth of the world's population of 700
mountain gorillas.
ZSL said another female and her infant were still missing and the killing
had orphaned one gorilla.
Earlier this year another two silverbacks and a female were shot in
Virunga, apparently by Congolese rebels for bush meat.
Virunga is the oldest national park in Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage
Site.
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