Endangered Mountain Gorillas Eaten by Congolese Rebels!
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According to the conversationalists said that the armed rebels have started killing and eating protected mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Till date remains of two gorillas have been found. And it is being feared that many of these critically endangered animals may have been killed.
Emmanuel de Merode, director of WildlifeDirect, a conservation group based in Kenya and the DRC. Said that “The fact that two were killed suggests they were deliberately targeted,”. “I suspect there was an element of vandalism.”
At present only around 700 mountain gorillas remain round the world. The gorilla’s that were eaten were identified as silverbacks.
Killings
The first silverback might have been killed by the rebels on January 9, According to a senior park warden Paulin Ngobobo.
“A local farmer was ordered to help the rebels collect the meat of the gorilla,” Ngobobo said. “He told them that the meat was dangerous to eat and immediately informed us of the incident.”
The other killing also could have happened on January 11, but Virunga park wardens only this week found the gorilla’s severed head, feet, skin, and other remains dumped in a pit latrine at a rebel camp.
The dead gorilla was identified as an 18-year-old silverback known as Karema. “This terrible act was done to humans during the Rwandan genocide,” he wrote in his blog.