Gorillas Find Refuge in Uganda

In the mountains between Rwanda and Uganda, researchers try to save a young female gorilla rescued from poachers.

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[neobattle2]

just kill the poachers

[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.

[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.

[swizzbeats1212]

I hate poachers so much God I hate people

[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]

@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

[danpayne118]

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

[danpayne118]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.