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Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: http://www.mgvp.org/
Dr. Lucy's Blog - Susa Group
Ururabo's baby seemed to recover completely after his two-day episode of runny nose and soft cough. We'd been checking him daily, along with all of the mothers and infants. Magda had seen him the day before, and he'd looked normal compared to the infants of both Ruvumu and Rwandarushya, who were now coughing along with their mothers. Dufatayne had recovered and her baby had yet to show any symptoms. When I arrived to check on the group, the mothers and infants were again the priority.
We hadn't yet opened our medical bags for the Susa outbreak, but we'd come close twice. Though Poppy had improved, one of her 4-year-old twins, Byishimo, had become progressively sicker. He'd been struggling with a cough and lethargy for over a week and then stopped eating. When he began lagging behind the group, our level of concern shot up.
My initial impression of the group on this morning, Day 20, was that many gorillas had improved. Maybe we'd turned the corner on the outbreak. Then I cautioned myself, remembering the number of infants in the group and the time it takes for this disease to cycle through everyone.
Sure enough, Rwandarushya appeared with her baby. First she coughed and then her infant coughed. His eyes looked bright enough, but he seemed very quiet. Ruvumu had regained her appetite and looked much improved, but her infant had a thick nasal discharge and frequent cough. He's a bigger, older baby, however.
Then we found Ururabo, coughing with nearly every breath, sitting head down and not eating. The baby lay limply in her arms, eyes closed, mouth open, wheezing. They were clearly the sickest of the 39 gorillas today. This little one had come down with the disease six days earlier — plenty of time to develop pneumonia, sometimes called the silent killer.
*PLEASE visit my pages for more information on how you can help these gentle giants...
http://my.care2.com/julesrs007
http://julesrs007saveanimals.blogspot.com/
*ALSO:
http://blogs.discovery.com/quest/2008/07/ururabos-baby-i.html
http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla (AWF Wildlife Mountain Gorilla)
http://www.gorillafund.org/ (Saving Gorillas - The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: http://www.mgvp.org/
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National Geographic Explorer investigates the execution-style murder of six mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park. Their search reveals corruption and how Virunga has become one of the most dangerous places on earth.
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National Geographic
(comcast San Francisco: 273)
above link for NG channel link.
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also, Terry Gross interviewed the photographer Brent Stirton on 07/24
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91835032
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Take Action. . . Make a Promise!
Help Save the African Wildlife
The illegal and commercial trade in wild meat – or bushmeat – poses one of the most significant threats to wildlife populations and dependent human communities around the world. It has already resulted in widespread local extinctions in Asia and West Africa, and may push the African great apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos—toward extinction within the next decade.People around the globe—like you—want to take action on the bushmeat crisis. Now you can!
The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force (BCTF) and its supporting members have created a way for everyone to be involved – The Bushmeat Promise. This campaign is designed to raise public awareness about the bushmeat crisis and promote direct actions to make a difference. And, by tracking individual efforts, we can document the global collective voice on the bushmeat issue.
If you decide to sign on to the Bushmeat Promise, you will be provided with a Bushmeat Promise Certificate for display and a list of actions you can take to protect endangered African Wildlife in the face of the bushmeat trade. We also have some ideas from others that have signed the Promise. For example, you might choose to educate your friends, support a local project, or volunteer time with a national conservation organization. By signing on to The Bushmeat Promise, you commit to just those actions that best match your individual resources, personality, and interests. In addition, you will be asked to provide contact information so we can keep in touch with you about the actions you take to fulfill your Promise.
Sign on to the BUSHMEAT PROMISE now!
http://www.bushmeat.org/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=133543&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=6&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
Take Action. . . Make a Promise!
Help Save the African Wildlife
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Help Protect Mountain Gorillas
In a 40-50 year lifetime, a female mountain gorilla might have only 2-6 surviving offspring. This slow reproduction makes this species even more threatened.
Less than 700 of the endangered great ape remain, and in 2007, 10 mountain gorilla killings threatened to reverse decades of conservation progress.
Reason to Hope:
The Virunga Heartland features the last remaining habitat of one of the world’s rarest primates, the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei). This charismatic animal is the flagship species for the conservation of the entire array of wildlife and habitat that make up this unique part of the planet.
AWF has been working to protect mountain gorillas for several decades, funding important research and working to ensure the survival of the mountain gorilla since the late 1970s. This important work has continued in spite of extraordinary circumstances. The human suffering during the Rwandan civil war of the 1990s was incalculable, but without the intervention and continued support of AWF and its partners, the victims of war might also have included the mountain gorilla. Thanks to the bravery and dedication of park rangers - some 70 of whom lost their lives - the Virunga mountain gorillas survived the war and the more recent conflicts in the DRC.
Continuing Threats:
Despite reasons for optimism, death and extinction are constant threats for the mountain gorilla. Historically, mountain gorillas have been threatened by poaching, loss of habitat from population pressures, civil unrest and spread of disease. And as human populations get closer to gorilla habitats, the gorillas are at greater risk of contracting human diseases, from flu-like problems and pneumonia to ebola.
Fortunately, conservation efforts initiated by the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), a coalition of the African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna and Flora International and World Wide Fund for Nature, have helped to ensure that the gorilla population will endure. Through a variety of methods, including transboundary collaboration, ranger-based monitoring, community development, anti-poaching activities and habitat conservation, IGCP and its conservation partners are helping the mountain gorillas to make a comeback.
Ways to Save Mountain Gorillas:AWF: Mountain Gorilla Conservation
Watch a short video overview of AWF and the International Gorilla Conservation Program's (IGCP) work to save endangered mountain gorillas.
http://www.awf.org/content/solution/detail/3589
* FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA & MANY OTHER ANIMALS, PLEASE VISIT:
http://julesrs007saveanimals.blogspot.com/
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http://my.care2.com/julesrs007
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WASHINGTON, JUNE 11 NatGeo-GorillaMurders
First to Gain Access, National Geographic Journalists Unravel Web of Corruption Surrounding the Suspect Behind the Murders in This Refuge for Critically Endangered Primates
'Explorer: Gorilla Murders' Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
WASHINGTON, JUNE 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In July 2007, six rare mountain gorillas are senselessly shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) Virunga National Park. The world responds in disbelief after shocking photographs by photojournalist Brent Stirton are smuggled out. Only an estimated 720 of these primates remain in the wild, and this is one of the worst massacres of mountain gorillas since scientist Dian Fossey began battling poachers 40 years ago in the very same region. Despite the photographic evidence of the atrocity, the complex story behind it remained largely untold and misunderstood. Who murdered these spectacular creatures and why?
On Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, National Geographic Channel's "Explorer: Gorilla Murders" reports from eastern DRC, one of the most dangerous places on earth, with the full untold story behind the massacre. Central to the story is Stirton, a South African war photographer with a long history in the region. He was on-location when the murdered gorillas were found and returned to the park for National Geographic to investigate who was behind the killings. In addition to the world television premiere, Stirton's and writer Mark Jenkins' reporting is the July cover story for National Geographic magazine. With the first Western journalists to gain access to the gorilla sector of the park since the killings occurred, National Geographic presents exclusive testimonials from eyewitnesses, including Stirton, who discuss the hunt to bring the perpetrators to justice and the desperate efforts to protect the remaining gorillas, including one miraculous infant whose family was among those massacred.
While the tragedy of the slain gorillas captured the attention of the world, their story only scratches the surface of this complex and often tumultuous region. Located in the DRC, Virunga National Park and its endangered primate residents have been caught in a deadly crossfire between militia groups and the Congolese Army.....WASHINGTON, JUNE 11 NatGeo-GorillaMurders
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Taiping 4 Gorilla “Oyin” Dies
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
(Cape Town, South Africa – 04 June 2008) Oyin, one of the “Taiping Four” gorillas died of unknown causes in Cameroon yesterday the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) announced this evening.
“We are extremely upset by the news that Oyin, one of the gorillas relocated to Cameroon from South Africa in December 2007, has passed away. She had apparently been sickly for about 10 days. At this stage it is unclear what caused her illness and, following an autopsy, blood and tissue samples have been sent to appropriate laboratories to ascertain the cause of death,” said Christina Pretorius, Campaign Manager of IFAW Southern Africa.
“We are extremely grateful to the Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC) which has been caring for Oyin and Tinu, Izan and Abbey – all Western Lowland Gorillas – since we were able to return them to Cameroon last year.
“We also extend our deep sympathy to the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa and their staff who provided great care and affection for the gorillas for so many years,” said Pretorius.
Pretorius said IFAW would announce the results of the cause of death as soon as they became available.
The return of the so-called “Taiping Four” to Cameroon marked the end of a saga in which the gorillas became ensnared in the politics of several nations and international law and became a high profile example of the rampant illegal trade in endangered species.
The gorillas, a male and three females, first made international headlines in 2002 after being smuggled to Malaysia using forged documents. DNA tests later confirmed that the animals were captured from the wild in Cameroon prior to being exported to Malaysia. In 2004, after being confiscated by Malaysian authorities, they were sent for safekeeping to the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa in Pretoria.
Over the last five years IFAW represented the NGO community including the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), the International Primate Protection League (IPPL), the Last Great Ape Organisation (LAGA) and the Pandrillus Foundation, all of whom lobbied exhaustively to ensure that the various governments involved upheld the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to have the gorillas returned to their home country.
* Please visit my other posts for links on how you can help this incredible creature...
Or contact me directly & I will send them to you.
Thank you!
http://www.worldwildlife.org/gorillas/
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://getinvolved.conservation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gorillavideo
http://www.wcs.org/international/Africa/gorilla
http://www.igcp.org/gorillas/gorillas.htm
http://mgvp.32ad.com/
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://www.gorillas.org/
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=17
www.uwa.or.ug/
www.iccnrdc.cd/
www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilladoctors
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5th Annnual
Denver Gorilla Run
2008
Do Halloween this year as a Mountain Gorilla
and help save these animals from extinction.
GET READY........GET SET.............GO...............rilla!
9:00am Registration Open
11:00am Start time
Saturday, October 25, 2008
5.6K RUN
"Most Creative" Gorilla Contest 10:30am
The Denver Gorilla Run is a charity fun run with a difference. Everyone who takes part wears a full gorilla costume - from fluffy head to furry toe - and helps raise funds for the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, the international charity working to save the world's last remaining mountain gorillas and keeping Dian Fossey’s dream alive for the past 23 years.
You can run, jog, walk, rollerblade or skateboard around the 5.6K route that weaves its way around the City of Denver, Colorado. Or if you like, you can do it gorilla style: on all fours!
With your entry, we will provide the gorilla suit (which you may keep afterwards), the spectators, t-shirt and all kinds of entertainment. All you have to do is get registered, be assigned to a gorilla team, get fit and have some fun!
Every participant in The Denver Gorilla Run will represent a group of real live gorillas in the wild. You will be assigned to either the Amahoro Group, Mubare Group, Sabinyo Group or the Rushegura Group - so with limited entries available you must register soon to secure your place.
Also visit: http://www.saveagorilla.org/ for more information.
5th Annnual
Denver Gorilla Run
2008
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'On Day 15 of the Susa Group respiratory outbreak, a cool, rainy morning, I stood in one place for two hours watching three sick gorillas. The longer I stayed, the more I worried about what we’d find the next day. Ururabo, a first-time mother with a three-month-old baby, coughed and picked her nose. Her baby coughed and sneezed; white fluid ran down from each nostril. He breathed through his mouth through pursed lips. Poppy, the oldest female in the family, sat motionless, huddled with her two older offspring. She’d been sick for almost two weeks.'
From: http://gorilladoctors.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/03/ururabos-baby-sick/
There are less than 700 Mountain Gorillas...that is unbelievably sad. Especially, when taking into consideration, that the 'discovery' of this magnificint & gentle creature was only ~100 years ago.
Please see the following links (as well as this page) on how you can help this extremely threatened species:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/gorillas/
http://www.worldwildlife.org/gorillas/
www.iccnrdc.cd/
www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilladoctors
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://getinvolved.conservation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gorillavideo
http://www.wcs.org/international/Africa/gorilla
http://www.igcp.org/gorillas/gorillas.htm
http://mgvp.32ad.com/
http://mgvp.32ad.com/default.aspx
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://www.gorillas.org/
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=17
www.uwa.or.ug/
www.rwandatourism.com/home.htm
discovery.blogs.com/quest
www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilladoctors
Videos:
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=36
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=17
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=17
* Please contact me directly for more info & links.
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"Over the last two months, nearly 4,000 acres of prime mountain gorilla habitat has been cleared by illegal settlers in Africa's Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site and site of Dian Fossey's groundbreaking gorilla research. World Wildlife Fund is calling on government officials there to take immediate action to protect the park.
Located in DRC on the border with Rwanda and Uganda, Virunga National Park is home to more than half the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas - one of the most critically endangered species on the planet.
According to information received by WWF, the Wildlife Conservation Society and their conservation partners, most of the destruction took place from early May to June. Several thousand people moved in to the area to farm illegally in Virunga, with support from influential local individuals who sold plots of land within the national park. The forest was clearcut and turned into timber or charcoal before crops were planted.
WWF and its partners are working to improve the livelihoods of local people around Virunga through community projects - destroying the park is not a solution and in the long- term will cause even more suffering to people as well as gorillas
WWF is urging the Congolese and Rwandan governments to take measures to enforce the UN World Heritage Convention that protects this unique site. WWF is also calling on the international community to fund park patrols, the peaceful evacuation of illegal settlers, and the restoration of destroyed areas.
"What is happening in Virunga is a disaster," says Marc Languy, coordinator of WWF's program in the Albertine Rift. "Thanks to conservation efforts during the past decades, the mountain gorillas have survived civil unrest and war in the region. Loss of habitat is however the worse threat to this species. It is also a loss for the local communities as the forest provides many ecological and economical services to the neighboring population, and many local people benefit from gorilla tourism revenues"."
By Jan Vertefeuille
Read more about issues affecting gorillas:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/gorillas/
http://www.worldwildlife.org/gorillas/
www.iccnrdc.cd/
www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilladoctors
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://getinvolved.conservation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gorillavideo
http://www.wcs.org/international/Africa/gorilla
http://www.igcp.org/gorillas/gorillas.htm
http://mgvp.32ad.com/default.aspx
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://www.gorillas.org/
http://gorilla.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/16/video-tshiaberimu-gorillas/
http://www.conservation.org/fmg/pages/videoplayer.aspx?videoid=17
www.uwa.or.ug/
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"I had to guide you all to a link that really hit home with me. I knew that the World Press Photo had recently chosen it's winners for best photo in various categories and posted video interviews of each winner on their website. I had even watched the interview of Platon, the photographer who shot a portrait session of Vladimir Putin for Time Magazine. I thought that was a really cool story, but it did not compare to the impact that Brent Stirton had on me with his shot of a dead mountain gorilla in the Eastern Congo.
His story of the original assignment for Newsweek magazine covering the rebel fighting in the DRC morphed into a story of gorilla conservation tied inextricably to the the resilience of the human spirit that made me truly inspired and near tears. I was also hugely impressed by his efforts and ingenuity to secure a shot showing the epic effort of these Rangers who's job it was to extract the murdered Silverback Gorilla from deep in the volcanic jungle.
This is what the World needs to see more of.
In the face of unimaginable hardships and uncertainty, that a group of underpaid and overworked Rangers, who have massive risks to their own life on a daily basis, would continue to stand up to the violence and death imposed by the rebel factions fighting for genocidal ideals. These men are true Heroes and so is Brent Stirton for showing us this story in such a respectful and honourable way, and at no small risk to his own life as well. I have no words of praise worthy enough for this.""I had to guide you all to a link that really hit home with me. I knew that the... more
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Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have made an agreement to cooperate on a 10-year conservation plan to protect the endangered mountain gorilla. they will share information on poachers and join efforts to stem human encroachment on the gorilla's habitat. There are only 720 of the animals left in the wild.Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have made an agreement to... more
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Bumpy dirt roads, a bit of rain, a lot of mud, some guys with machine guns and bush-whacking doesn't stop us on our quest to track the Mountain Gorillas. Check out what it takes to get up close and personal with these fascinating animals in the mountains of Central Africa.Bumpy dirt roads, a bit of rain, a lot of mud, some guys with machine guns and... more
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Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for endangered mountain gorillas, threatening one of the last known populations of the animals, conservationists said Sunday.Shelling and heavy gunfire could be heard from the headquarters of the Virunga National Park, and rangers were forced to flee over the weekend, said the international conservation group WildlifeDirect.It is just baffling to me that people would feel so privileged and so little respect for an amazing animal of which there are so few left in the world. Are they ignorant or just think that their cause is more important than the lives of the few of these magnificent beings?Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for... more
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