Please Do Not Tap On the Glass

**Update: Newsweek reporters were on hand when the massacre was discovered and the story is their current cover. Read it and look at the photos.**

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. –Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe, in a letter to President Franklin Pierce**

Paulin Ngobobo has posted twice overnight to the Gorilla Protection blog. The July 28 post details how he learned of the killings in the Mikeno sector and includes several photographs. They are disturbing and difficult to look at it, but we must look. As I said before, we owe it our gentle, innocent cousins to look at what happened to them and then to do something to prevent it from happening again.

That’s the subject of Paulin’s July 29 post – how we can take action to help the gorillas in the Mikeno sector. If you want to get directly involved in helping Paulin and the Virunga National Park rangers as they struggle to protect the remaining mountain, then send an e-mail message to gorillacampaign@wildlifedirect.org and write “I would like to be part of the campaign for the Mikeno Gorillas” and they’ll send via e-mail a packet of campaign material. It is crucial that we get this information out to as many people as possible. Send it to your family members, your friends, your Congressional representatives, your colleagues, your neighbors, and your schools.

Ranger Elie Mundima’s blog is updated in French and English to report that he’s joining the advance force in Mikeno as part of the short-term strategy to save the remaining gorillas.

GET BUSY.

**Thanks to Bettina for posting the quote on Paulin’s blog. Also, many thanks to my friends Yash and JSR for kindly sharing with me the wisdom of their people, the Tsalagi.

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