Illegal to kill gorillas come on Africa take a stand! - Political Forum

Wolfman · 07-27-2007, 10:04 AM

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Gorilla Executions Puzzle Conservationists

Four mountain gorillas, including one infant, were found shot to death this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making a total of seven killings of the critically endangered primates since January, according to researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The four gorilla carcasses were spotted in the Congo's Virunga National Park, which along with the surrounding Virunga Volcanoes Region, supports 380 mountain gorillas, or more than half of the global population. Until recently, the region was touted as one of Africa's wildlife success stories, with a rise in gorilla numbers attributed to conservation efforts by wardens.

The gorillas were part of a group regularly visited by tourists and researchers, who dubbed them the Rugendo family.

Commercial hunters sometimes kill gorillas to sell for food or trophies, and even have been known to capture live babies for the pet trade.

However, the wildlife scientists found no evidence of poaching on the four dead gorillas. For one, the bodies were left behind, and the infant was found clinging to its mother.

Some conservationists suggest the killings were meant to send a message to wardens to leave the park. Virunga has come under increasing pressure from outside exploitation, including the charcoal trade. As well, human-generated pressures, such as rapid deforestation in the region, imperil the gorillas.

“This is a senseless and tragic loss of some of the world’s most endangered and beloved wildlife,” said Deo Kujirakwinja, of the WCS's Congo Program. “This area must be immediately secured or we stand to lose an entire population of these endangered animals.”

enough! GOD loves his creations and so do I!

BANDERA · 07-27-2007, 04:28 PM

You say "Gorilla Executions Puzzle Conservationists " Well yest that would puzzle anybody becsue only humans can be executed not animals. This does not mean that I condone what was done to the gorillas but come on now let's get melogramatic.

I suppose you and the PETA burgers would try to tell us cattle, hogs, chickens and sheep are also "excuted". How about fish do you claim that fishermen "execute" fish when they catch them ?

How about bacteria ? Do people "execute " bacteria? Do you want to charge the makers of Lysol and other makers of anti-bactarial products with "Bacteriacide"

micfranklin · 07-29-2007, 12:46 AM

So what does the DRC plan on doing about it?

Agrippina · 09-19-2007, 12:01 PM

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So what does the DRC plan on doing about it?

They will do absolutely nothing as long as there are people who will pay big money for trophies.
Just as nothing will be done to stop whaling, the killing of dolphins, rhinos and elephants.
If there is money to be made, and a market to be supplied, the animals will be taken until there are none left.

As long as the only animal with the capability of speech imagines that it is his right to hunt animals he considers less than himself and provides the market for the products of the animals hunted, there will be hunters. We need to teach the world's children that animals don't belong to us they belong to the future and to stop all forms of hunting altogether.

Hypnox · 09-19-2007, 01:05 PM

Listen , the rest of the World doesn't care if Africans eat three squares meals
a day!.Come on man Gorrilla meat must taste like stake or something!

Heart of Midlothian · 09-19-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hypnox

Listen , the rest of the World doesn't care if Africans eat three squares meals
a day!.Come on man Gorrilla meat must taste like stake or something!

I don't know if you're just having a laugh - I hope you are. Hunting animals for sport or trophies is barbaric and disgusting and I can't see how anyone can condone it. Just as well the hunters have guns which stacks the odds heavily in their favour otherwise they may not be quite so brave. They should try taking on the Gorilla without their gun - I know who would win.

Agrippina · 09-19-2007, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Heart of Midlothian

I don't know if you're just having a laugh - I hope you are. Hunting animals for sport or trophies is barbaric and disgusting and I can't see how anyone can condone it. Just as well the hunters have guns which stacks the odds heavily in their favour otherwise they may not be quite so brave. They should try taking on the Gorilla without their gun - I know who would win.

You are so right. Here we have people who set up lions in camps so that trophy hunters can pay tens of thousands of Rand to shoot them like fish in a barrel. I'd love to set them loose in a game reserve with rhino, lion. leopard, cheetah and hyena without a gun - see how they like it.

iTaliAN_ICe · 09-19-2007, 06:34 PM

I hope they're able to take care of whoever did this. I don't know... I could care less about other animals, but things like gorillas and chimps are too similar to us to kill for sport. As for killing to make a point? That's just stupid.

Izzibeth · 09-19-2007, 07:06 PM

Well... the main point is that they are being wiped out. There are something like 500 gorillas left in the world/wild. I, for one, will/would be disgusted if/when gorillas are annihilated by human beings because we are selfish and obviously could care less about the other creatures on the planet. One day we will eradicate one too many animals and be greatly effected by it (see; bees).

factfinder · 09-26-2007, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Heart of Midlothian

I don't know if you're just having a laugh - I hope you are. Hunting animals for sport or trophies is barbaric and disgusting and I can't see how anyone can condone it. Just as well the hunters have guns which stacks the odds heavily in their favour otherwise they may not be quite so brave. They should try taking on the Gorilla without their gun - I know who would win.

Thank you for expressing my feelings and all of you who have taken side with the gorillas - killing gorillas is extra sickening.