Rare gorilla birth recorded in Congo

Conservationists announced recently the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals. The tiny, gorilla, named Ndeze, was born February 17 in Congo's Virunga National Park, home to some of world's last 700 mountain gorillas, said Samantha Newport of the conservation support group Wildlife Direct.

 

"It's incredibly positive. These gorillas have managed to survive a 10-year civil war",  Newport said. It is "an absolute miracle and testament to the work of the rangers, who worked throughout the war without receiving a salary, and to conservationists from all over the world".

 

 (The New Indian Express, 5^th   March,2007)