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Gorillas Seize Gorilla Sanctuary

Chief Monkeyologist — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:37:11 +0000

Gorillas (as in militants not gigantic primates) have taken over the famed Virunga National Park. (which has been mentioned on this blog before). This is not good for the 200+ remaining wild Gorillas.

The Gorilla Protection blog run by park rangers is a good source for some info.

Murdered Of The Virunga Gorillas?

Chief Monkeyologist — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:57:58 +0000

Photojournalist Brent Stirton, and reporter Mark Jenkins research the complex story of who killed silverback gorillas in Congo’s Virunga National Park.

You read about it over at National Geographic view some photos (as always they are National Geographic quality) or in the July issue of National Geographic.

This is a topic mentioned here before at Monkeyology.com.

Photo is from National Geographic

Mountain Gorilla Blogs

Chief Monkeyologist — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:58:21 +0000

Park rangers in Virunga National Park, which has some of the last mountain gorillas have a blog. Due to the political issues in the area it’s a very dangerous job with 120 killed in the past decade. Sadly the blog is somewhat of a war blog. Despite that some posts like this one on orphans have some great gorilla pics.

Some good stuff there to read about the Gorillas and the danger they are in, and the people protecting our hairy brothers.

There’s also the Gorilla Doctors blog with more great stuff and some great pictures like these.