Africa's endangered mountain gorillas - 25 Sep 07

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from Virunga National Park near the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Rwanda on the endangered mountain gorillas who live in a vast expanse of forest there. There are only 720 of them left on earth. But nine of them have been killed since the beginning of this year. Tracking their footprints, Ndege ventured deep into the forest with a rangers' patrol to investigate the threats facing the mountain gorillas. The national park is the kind of habitat that gorillas need to survive. But it's also the theatre of an intense battle between government troops and rebels fighting alongside the renegade general Laurent Nkunda. It's not just the recent fighting that's wreaking havoc on the gorilla population. Poachers set snares, illegal "invaders" and also people going into the park to cut down the trees to make charcoal.

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[screwrepubs]

Al Jazeera isn't the place for moronic American comments. find a more dumbed down platform for your stupid comments. try Faux News.

[al2moo]

Beautiful animals.

Very nice job...

[andylumeh]

The red foxes in England are endangered, every year hundreds of whitemen hunt these poor red foxes. These white redfaced hunters Englishmen hunt the foves for blood sport, and not for food. Totally babaric, and this endangers the foxes in England. I hope the hyprocritical Englishman will see the plank in his own eyes, and keep his dirty nose out of Africa.

[AngeloNiklis]

@v6b7n

I'm glad I don't have a cell phone!

[fairymairah]

i wish there was some way to stop most of the asian people from from being over there in the first place. they are dangerous to most habitats in africa ! ! ! ! !

[annonamyst]

@fairymairah i kinda agree becuase asians want to protect the eco-system in their china and japan but yet wanna only destroy animals and eco-system in lands that are not native to china. and won't let any foreighner harm anything in their country ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[fairymairah]

and i don't mean to be prejudice agianst asains even when they said black people in america are like prostitutes living there but some of them are also racist just look at some of the suspician their cartoons that my family pointed out like pokemon and the genie from dragon ball and umbreon used to be called blackie ! ! ! ! !

[fairymairah]

@mahdi0123456789 HALLELUJAH XD thnk you ! ! ! ! !

[fairymairah]

i wish that some of the foriegners were kick off becuase they woulde'nt let anyone harm animals their land and yet they wanna harm animals in land that's not their's ! ! ! ! !

[rosey10880]

Maybe we should just allow all the soldiers to kill ach other off so that the gorillas can return to their homes peacefully.