Just for you aka 'silverback' another headline that won't be on the front page of gnn.tv since I was banned.Jonathan Clayton in Nairobi
At least eight rare mountain gorillas have been shot dead, striking a blow to conservation efforts.The animals were part of a 12-member troop known to researchers as the Rugendo family and lived in a mountainous area straddling the borders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo often visited by tourists.The killings, in the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, may have been intended as a warning to local conservationists who seek to prevent the commercial destruction of the region’s rainforests, the natural habitat of gorillas. The Virunga mountains are closely associated with Dian Fossey, the American zoologist, whose book, Gorillas in the Mist, became an acclaimed Hollywood film with Sigourney Weaver as Fossey.
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