About the Mountain Gorillas

 

They look up at you from their wrinkled, black leather faces and it's . . . it's . . . well, it's awfully difficult writing about mountain gorillas. Words are unable to convey the emotional impact of the experience. When one first locks onto your gaze with its beautiful, wise, chocolaty-brown eyes your brain explodes. It thwacks you in some ancient corner of your medulla oblongata and comes out as tears. When the gorilla looks away you feel instantly lonely.

~ Tessa Edwards (mazoommzee)

Critically endangered, the world population of Mountain Gorillas stands at just around 700, with half the these individuals living in the DR Congo. There are no mountain gorillas in captivity.  I n just seven months, the systematic killings have wiped out a significant proportion of this global population. I f we do not stop this massacre, these magnificent creatures will become yet another species lost.

This is a video taken by one of the rangers on 8-17-2007 of some of the 5 surviving members of the Rugendo Family playing together.

To Veiw more please go to the Wildlife Direct Gorilla Protection Blog