Gorillas Find Refuge in Uganda

[swizzbeats1212]

I hate poachers so much God I hate people

[Pablomachine07]

You writing 4 the real history of Africa pease contact us.

you do wrong history

This Gorilla is Hutu noise not Tutsi Noise.

[cesnitry]

"The average American or European has seen more African species in zoos than your typical modern African has seen in the wild," said Elias Maluleke, a South African journalist who has written on the subject. "Wildlife parks are seen as white peoples' enclaves. How many blacks do you see wandering around Kruger National Park (in South Africa)? How many big game hunters are black? Africans get nothing out of their own wildlife."

Which is exactly where community-based conservation comes in.

[danpayne118]

@cesnitry Well i always thought Africans got a shedload out of their wildlife, because one of their main sources of income is tourism

[cesnitry]

@danpayne118 still clueless mate....who do you think gets de profit from the parks? who do u think owns the hotels villas etc? learn and dont be such a simple mind

[hfdpayner]

@cesnitry listen, i am well educated but not about africa. I bet i know more about other subjects than you do, so theres no need to be rude calling me a "simple mind."

[cesnitry]

Yet the most disturbing trend of all, experts warn, is that Africa's wildlife is becoming increasingly irrelevant to Africans themselves. Swelling armies of rural peasants see wild animals as little more than crop pests--or dinner. And among the continent's exploding urban populations, the plight of such animals as black rhinos, whose numbers have crashed disastrously from 100,000 to just 3,000 in 25 years, is an eccentric concern at best.

[cesnitry]

- Africa's latest cycle of wars, meanwhile, is gutting the continent's premier wildlife habitats. The Congo's Virunga National Park, a UN-designated World Heritage Site where Africa's oldest rain forests grow, has turned into a killing zone for animals. Armed factions in Congo's civil war have gunned down 10,000 hippos, 6,000 buffaloes and more than 3,000 elephants since 1994, biologists say. Desperate refugees have razed more than 20 square miles of the forest for firewood.

[cesnitry]

- The environmental coups scored against the international wildlife trade in the 1990s-- particularly the ivory ban that helped save Africa's elephants--are being undone by new, homegrown threats. Urban migration of rural people has created a faddish appetite for wild animal meat among Africa's millions of city dwellers. This bush-meat trade has funneled tons of dead antelopes, elephants, bush pigs, monkeys and snakes-- trussed in bloody burlap sacks-- into the booming city markets

[cesnitry]

The biggest fight ahead, conservationists say, won't be on Africa's famed savannas, but in besieged forests like those at Mgahinga and its sister gorilla park, the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Today, efforts are under way to safeguard small patches of the species-rich Congo Basin, a vast rain forest a third the size of the continental United States that is under assault by European logging firms.

[cesnitry]

And biologists warn that the Earth's richest assemblage of large mammals--a unique remnant of the fauna that roamed the continents during the Pleistocene Epoch--is slipping inexorably toward oblivion.

Consider these trends:

- With Africa's human population expected to rocket from 650 million to 1.1 billion over the next 25 years, hundreds if not thousands of animal and plant species will be crowded out of existence.

[cesnitry]

Few experts dispute the fact that Africa's pageant of wildlife is in drastic shape. After more than a century of Western-style management, the iconic animals that have come to symbolize wild nature to millions of people around the world are more threatened than ever. Fabled wildlife parks have become dog-eared meccas of industrial tourism.

[cesnitry]

"Sucker would never compromise for his gorillas," said Jaap Schoorl, a Dutch environmental consultant who worked in Uganda when the German was still booting villagers out of Mgahinga. "But we have to face the reality that Africa's wild places are shrinking islands surrounded by a growing sea of people. Unless we do something drastic, we're lost."

[cesnitry]

Remote, hauntingly beautiful and dirt poor, Uganda's version of Appalachia has thus become the world's boldest experiment in social engineering for the sake of the environment. It is a corner of Africa where pygmies are now required to carry "utilization permits" to use their own forests. Where the gorillas' long-term fortunes depend on the vagaries of the London stock exchange. And where a gentler, kinder vision of conservation,

[cesnitry]

And dozens of technical consultants, wheeling their shiny four-wheel-drive vehicles through the farmlands that ring gorilla habitat, are pushing million-dollar projects in crop improvement, family planning, agroforestry and micro-enterprise--all to minimize human conflict with some 300 reclusive apes.

[cesnitry]

To save what's left of Africa's fading wildlife, experts say, the animals must in essence be given back to the Africans, so the Africans will feel more of a kinship with them and feel the need to protect them.

Lucrative gorilla tourism profits, for example, are being shunted toward building local schools. Villagers who were once evicted from the gorilla parks are being invited back in to harvest forest products, a heresy unthinkable in Sucker's day.

[cesnitry]

but competing environmentalists who have launched what is, in effect, a sweeping, last-ditch battle for the soul of wild Africa.

Organizations such as the International Gorilla Conservation Program, the World Bank and CARE have chosen the misty jungles and crowded villages of southwestern Uganda as a vast and controversial testing ground for the theory of "community conservation." The idea is simple:

[cesnitry]

Apparently distraught over abandoning his beloved gorillas,Sucker hanged himself in his nearby village home without leaving a note.

Sucker's obscure 1994 death might seem like just another case of environmental martyrdom in Africa; inevitably, his tragedy has been compared to the murder of Dian Fossey of "Gorillas in the Mist" fame.

But Sucker's story is different, because his most powerful opponents weren't the usual rogue's gallery of xenophobic politicians or greedy wildlife dealers,

[cesnitry]

Critics said that Sucker put the needs of animals above those of thousands of impoverished Africans living around his park. When Sucker refused to bend, they quietly lobbied the Ugandan National Parks Service for his transfer.

"Klaus was a strong man, but when they ordered him to go it affected his heart," said Sunday Nyakunze, an AK-47-toting park ranger trained by Sucker. "That's the only way we can explain the bad thing he did at the end."

[cesnitry]

Five years of angry clashes with encroaching farmers had turned his mop of blond hair prematurely white-- much like the hulking, silver-backed gorillas he so admired.Sucker's most formidable foes, however, came from far beyond Mgahinga's bamboo forests and watercolor-blue volcanoes. In a backlash as old as African conservation itself, powerful interest groups objected to the warden's gung-ho methods.

[cesnitry]

Uganda - Like any other park warden in Africa, Klaus-Jurgen Sucker had enemies, although maybe more than most. When it came to defending his park's endangered mountain gorillas, Sucker knocked heads hard.

A strapping, 37-year-old German biologist, Sucker infuriated the local Bakiga and Bafumbira hunters whose snares he ripped up, some 7,000 wire traps in all. He earned the wrath of illegal loggers by erecting steel barriers along the park's boundaries.

[David95Del]

Poor Gorillas =(

[nypd10210]

fuck those apes just like niggers

[1GamingGod1]

wow im white but was there any need in sayin that

[cRuff00]

WOW.

[hitmankillzone]

i wish i was a poacher paocher,..hunt and kill paochers :D

[spikesdatsme]

oh no i just finished watching it

she died.... =[

[cagombo]

we have to take this forest by force

and kill this f. hunters

i am readdy

[spikesdatsme]

me too

[cRuff00]

see you there late this year. Train hard with the rangers. and your ready to fight for the wildlife =)

[blackcharrofilm]

Demanding justice for something you are not part of, seating in your desk far away from a conflict zone where 1,500 people are kill a day (half of them children) and over 60,000 woman have being rape, is an easy thing to say and ask. If you vote for Billy Clinton u are part of this problem. Clinton did not stop Rwanda genocide and now Hutu and Tutsi rebels prey on the parks to control charcoal trade in Congo and Rwanda. Come to Congo, live here for a year and then tell this people what to do.

[panga71]

poor gorilla:(

[CliveKoopa]

Every wildlife habitat should be patrolled with poacher bounty hunters and they should all have "Poachers will be killed" signs.

[ww2luv]

i feel sorry for that gorillia

[riffrandell64]

humans share a common ancestor with all apes but we are more closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos.

[neobattle2]

just kill the poachers

[CliveKoopa]

I agree, its the only way this evil crime is going to stop. Kill all poachers on the spot. The same goes for illegal loggers as they also contribute to the deaths of many animals and their habitats.

[danpayne118]

@neobattle2 thats easy to say from a developed country point of view, but what if you had a family to feed?

[worldofwarcraftty]

sab ur crazy u wont us all to die? man we can do better then anything this earth has ever seen. dont give ur hope saying o well i hope we all die.

[AfroSK8TERXXX]

THAT GORILLA LOOKS LIKE MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR! lol

[kalumnch]

men people like you deserve no place in this world

[sabu43v3r]

hopefuly the end of mankind will come sooner than that

[CliveKoopa]

Nah, just the evil ones. But you do have a point. The world would be better off without humanity because our species has done far more damage than we have good.

[Tetzukai]

Poachers desire to die. They should just hunt them down and kill them. Lets see hoe they like it.

[Tetzukai]

I Strongly agree.

[janet928]

This amazing! Just think that our ancestors were just like this thousands of years ago. makes you think does it not!!!

[CoconutCabaysa]

were not at all related to gorrillas. close but we dont come from them.

[zygo]

Doesn't that make you evil as well?

I already know I am. =P

[0play3r0]

its MONEY what makes ppl bad or good

[ArnoldDarkshner]

lol i don't think you're gonna find any gorillas surfing youtube. unless you're searching for guerillas. there might be some watching a hugo chavez video of some sort. you can go apologize there.

[highp0wer]

I hunt, I kill animals. But I eat what I kill, and I kill species that are plentiful. Poaching is a disturbing act of criminality. Poaching is human, hunting is nature. I feel sorry for the "person" who can kill another primate, something is missing from their soul.

[QuasiEvilScott]

While I was in Uganda, on a hike up a mountain - rangers were escorting 3 poachers down the same path. We didnt realize they were poachers until our ranger guide informed us.

-Qes

[ebag111s]

Type bushmeat in google images... DAMN MAN

[icequeen41894]

What is wrong with poachers!? Why would you ever do that!

[CliveKoopa]

Because they are sick and twisted, thats why.

[indiagitana]

If only mankind were able to share the world with other beings. We tend to think only our species is important in this world. What a sad and unbearable world it would be if there's not a great variety of animals to coexist with us.

[captainzerb]

Development and farming are driving back the gorillas. Uganda and Rwanda are countries which frequently undergo humanitarian crises, and there is poverty and disease. Farming and economic development are the only things which can help the humans living there. Fuck the gorillas, there are hundreds of thousands of them in the Congo. There are more important problems in third world African countries than poachers, and anyone who fails to recognize this has an irrational bias against humanity.

[boys0fsummer1]

@captainzerb

Its about respect for life. The mentality that extends its compassion to a narrowly defined tribe only is what is causing the problems in the world for people and animals.

[BeechSundowner]

Good video!

[SafetyChris]

tragic

[andymcparrot]

Solution: create anti-poaching laws with extremely high penalties. Police and government must absolutely and seriously enforce these. The fine and jailtime must be daunting and ENFORCED. Secondly, provide people with a viable and profitable alternate source of income

nickflit, it makes us angry to see what is happening, and I appreciate that you feel so passionately, but killing people will result in abandoned families with very little means to support themselves

[seagirlkat]

I find your comments enlightening and thought-provoking. Thank you for taking the time to write. :)

[andymcparrot]

Thank you seagirlkat! Sorry for the late reply... I'm reading back on all the videos I made comments on, because I just figured out how to check my inbox!! haha

[ItEnds2Nite]

the world is far too soft on all of this. i swear, some judges are like jellyfish. the penalties do nothing so of course it continues. it's a disgrace. i would love to see actual severe results. major jailtime and a harsh fine. if many of the world governments weren't so corrupt, perhaps we could get this.

[andymcparrot]

I agree with memfe07, and not at all with nickflit...

People do not resort to poaching because they are cruel, and murderous. People resort to poaching because the money is too tempting to turn away from, especially if they have a family to feed and provide for... The same goes for the destruction of rainforest for farming. The farmers priority is supporting his family. What is your solution for that? Cut him down and burn him, as he did with the forest? (continued above)

[ItEnds2Nite]

that is true in some cases, but not all. not all poaching and forest clear cutting is done by small time farmers or villagers trying to support a family. most in fact is done by people who do not even live in that particular country. by big companies or people simply filled with greed who see a profit, not life. these people i have no sympathy for and should be on this planet.

[nickflit]

Not Mike Hukabee..

And not any candidate for that matter..

So you religious fanatics start forming your own thoughts instead of being simple sheep..

Thank You.

[mamfe07]

of course i think that poaching is completely wrong. however, i think that the all the comments on here suggesting that the poachers be killed are inappropriate. let's look at the system which leads to people turning to poaching for a living rather than assume these poachers don't deserve the right to live. i think it's important to try to see things from their point of view so that we can try to work out policies to end the violence rather than turn it on them.

[nickflit]

Shut your trap pacifist and smell the shit your stewing..

The only thing these animals (poachers) understand is violence, and therefore thats how you can deal with them..

6 billion people and a few gorillas:

Who is going to be missed more; some degenerate criminal sadist poachers or a living, breathing piece of our World's History?

[LimeGhost117]

Why would people want to buy gorillas?

[inhuman216]

Coz they make better wives. They dont cheat and they dont leave you either and DONT ask for money!

[SafetyChris]

ha ha

[MovieBlarg]

lmfao.

[fool8]

bloody f*cking poachers!

[akoromin]

i never consider ape and me share common ancestry ....maybe it ur ancestor....EVOLUTION DECEIT....

[mostliberal]

Maybe you should re-examine the FACTS before you state an opinion like that. Our life decisions are based on FACTS, not embellished stories (I mean DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR).

[bskizzle2]

DEAR GOD EARTH IS JUST A WASTELAND NOW

[phenomenalgrl]

how sad.

[theBouss]

ummmm, apes are NOT our ancestors, rather we share a common ancestor and diverged from there. Read more...

[ItEnds2Nite]

id love to shoot every single inhuman greed filled poacher straight in the head. whats worse, is the great apes are so similar to use it's unreal. as they are compared to about a 3 year old human child. so incredibly intelligent. we certainly do not always come first, we aren't the ones facing extinction. there are too damn many of us everywhere as is.

[sovietgunpoint6]

When I saw a picture of that ape, I really thought it was a naked black gorilla fighter.

[Qdude10]

why are us humans greedy basterd asses that dont care about other animals?? =(

[tmacc]

nice

[javiss4455dle]

Fuck you

[RUSTOPHdrums]

yeah,,, youre right. people do come before animals. it wouldnt matter if a species goes extinct. youre right. poachers would be able to make a decent living poaching if we didnt waste so much time and money on protecting the animals. but hey, soon they would be out of work. youre one fucking sick fuck buddy. i hope your limbs ripped off by gorillas.

[cryptopunx]

You are just full of shit, it's to people like you we should stop to give money!

Die in slaughter house bastard!!!

[flimrovel1987]

hear hear, and a big fuck you from me too

[duskydolphinz]

They are beautiful animals. Very peaceful. That movie "Gorillas in the Mist" by Dianne Fossey was horrific too...how they chop off the gorillas arms to make ashtrays. What kind of sick person would want to buy a gorillas arm for an ashtray? It's twisted.

[redshorty71]

They are so sweet animals. And it ended up dying. I hope that the rangers end up killing those people that kill the gorillas. Cause when they catch them they just get out again and go right back to doing it again. So sad.

[arodisgod13]

more people shud b watching these videos instead of stupid shit from happyslip kevjumba that gay guy phil there not entertaining at all

[pauploves]

damm poachers - someone should give them a dose of their own medicine - poach them see how they bloody like it

[REXDEX360]

poor gorilla :( but i hope he finds he gets accepted into a group of apes :)

[dafttool]

If you watch it to the end, you'll hear that it dies. :(

[REXDEX360]

dambass poachers

[raksta76]

One thing I can say is Human is more animal than animals...

[Folklore4207]

Stand up!@!!

[shorty962]

kill the fucking poachers

[havoctrend]

Those scums kill an entire family of gorillas to take in turn just one baby?

I hope the rangers use every bullet they have on these people..... sick

[quotagirl]

I can't believe they let that baby die in the jungle.

Stupid - stupid - stupid.

And that poacher - oooooh so wish the silverback had torn his arm off. He'd stop poaching then.

;(

[Spiralworm]

That Gorilla should have severely damaged that man. Kock out his eyes or something. At this rate we will loose many of our rare creatures forever.

[derlau]

how do we differenciate the value of a human life from an animal's?

[893Productions]

there's more than enough humans already

[CliveKoopa]

Far too many. At the current rate, we will have 10 billion people on the planet by 2050 and almost all the natural wildlife habitats will be gone. I dread to think of what the world would be like if that happened.

[goodfella8707]

we need to leave those innocent animals alone. i swear is it no wonder why so many humans end up getting killed by wild animals. its because they want to be left alone.

[porolita22]

Classic human nature, destroying wildlife.

:'(

[derlau]

porolita....human are part of wildlife too.

[porolita22]

men are civilized not wild, but they too destroy each other so it applies I guess.

[SlyFox616]

This video asks the question: Which is more tragic...the poaching of a beautiful creature?...or the extreme poverty that empowers the poachers?

[CanadaNS]

SECOND

[CanadaNS]

Make that THRID

[dafttool]

The Mountain Gorillas are facing a terrible hardship brought on by man. What a horrible shame it will be if we lose them forever.

RIP Diane Fossey (the brave researcher who was slaughtered by poachers)

[CanadaNS]

RIP Diane Fossey. Amazing women!

[Loperis]

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