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Subject: Mountain gorillas
From: "Martyn Stewart" mijdog2000
Date: Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:53 pm ((PST))
> This is something else that makes me feel sick at the moment, i have  
> some recordings of these animals from 1987 ....






> Laurent Nkunda alias Laurent Nkundabatware or Laurent Nkunda Batware
> (born February 2, 1967) is a former General in the Armed Forces of
> the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is the current leader of a
> rebel faction operating in the province of Nord-Kivu, sympathetic to
> Congolese Tutsis and the Tutsi-dominated government of neighbouring
> Rwanda.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Nkunda
>
> KIGALI, RWANDA, Jan. 19 -/E-Wire/-- African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)
> has learned from the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la
> Nature (ICCN) that insurgent forces led by the dissident General
> Laurent Nkunda have invaded Virunga National Park's south sector in
> the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and killed at least one
> silverback mountain gorilla.
>
> http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/3617
>
> KINSHASA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Congolese rebels accused of killing and
> eating at least two of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas in
> recent weeks have agreed to stop killing the rare primates, a
> conservation group said on Wednesday.
>
> Wildlife Direct accuses rebel fighters loyal to renegade Congolese
> army General Laurent Nkunda of butchering two silverback gorillas --
> adult males so called for their grey colouring -- within the last
> month.
>
> http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24344911.htm
>
> Nairobi/Goma - Congolese rebels have overrun a protected area for
> endangered mountain gorillas, forcing out rangers and making them
> unable to track the primates, leaving them open to attacks by armed
> militias, a conservation group said Monday. WildlifeDirect, a group
> which works to protect the world's 700 mountain gorillas, said
> fighting between the forces of dissident general Laurent Nkunda and
> the Congolese army threatens to affect the 72 gorillas in the
> country's Virunga National Park.
>
> http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/120533.html
>
> Conservationists have become increasingly concerned for the remaining
> 700 gorillas in the Virunga National Park where the Congolese army is
> attacking the positions of renegade General Laurent Nkunda.
>
> http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=279321




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