Do not miss the NatGeo special “Explorer: The Gorilla Murders.” The hour-long special airs Tuesday, July 1, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel and includes a PSA by actress Natalie Portman (a vegan!). She is an advocate for the mountain gorillas and visited Rwanda last year. Last night I attended a screening [...]
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Remember to e-mail your vote for moon bears as one of Asia’s Big 5 species! NatGeo photographer Brent Stirton was interviewed yesterday by Terry Gross on NPR’s program, “Fresh Air.” It’s a compelling interview, full of information you probably didn’t know about the culprit behind the murders of the Rugendo family of gorillas. You can [...]
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On TV: “Gorilla Murders” airs Tuesday, July 1, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Don’t miss it! Thanks to a commenter on Wildlife Direct’s Gorilla Protection blog, I learned of Nat Geo’s new story (with video and stunning photos) titled “Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?” We learned some time ago that the [...]
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Ranger Diddy reports via video today that ICCN rangers are back in one of the posts seized by rebels during the recent and ongoing war. This is really great news. We’re all hoping they see some of the gorilla families soon. Diddy’s a natural, don’t you think? s.
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Times have been tough for the ICCN rangers in Virunga National Park’s gorilla sector since the recent war started. To date, they do not have control of many of their park stations, which are still under the control of Laurent Nkunda’s rebels. These rebels have set themselves up as “park rangers” and give tours to [...]
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We’ll just call this “bad news Sunday,” because nothing I’ve read has been hopeful or cheering. I started my morning by checking the blogs on Wildlife Direct to learn that yesterday three more elephants were killed in Virunga National Park. This brings the total killed to 17 in just two weeks. “This is unprecedented. Every [...]
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Wow. Paulin Ngobobo, who was once the ICCN warden for the gorilla sector in Virunga National Park, voiced suspicions that the charcoal mafia was behind the murders of the Rugendo family last July. He also voiced suspicions that some of those involved were high-ranking ICCN officials. Turns out he was right. Today, the Gorilla Protection [...]
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Here’s the latest information on wildlife conservation in Africa, as covered by the conservationists who blog at Wildlife Direct. Snake Discovery Rocks the World Wide Web In December 2007 the world learned about a remarkable new species of cobra, the Naja ashei, from East Africa. This was not just any snake: it turned out to [...]
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Those of us who follow, and support, the blogs at Wildlife Direct learned this morning of the death of one of the recently orphaned baby gorillas. Vumilia and Mapendo The doctors and rangers named him Vumilia, which means “patient,” because he was very ill when the MONUC troops seized him and a smaller female from [...]
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**Third post today** Emmanuel de Merode, the CEO of Wildlife Direct, posted yesterday about the seizure of two baby lowland gorillas from poachers by MONUC troops. Unfortunately, the MONUC soldiers did not arrest the poachers but sent them on their ways. These poachers killed the babies mothers, and who knows how many other critically endangered [...]
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