31 July 2012
I just read about how poachers snares had killed two Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda this year. And how people have been working tirelessly toremove the snares in the area when they caught some remarkable footage. Ill let the report from one of the members of the team explain it:
"A silverback called Vuba pig-grunted at him – a vocalisation of warning – and at the same time juveniles called Dukore and Rwema together with a blackback called Tetero ran toward the snare and together pulled the branch used to hold the rope. They saw another snare nearby and as quickly as before they destroyed the second branch and pulled the rope out of the ground."
The Gorillas were disabling the snares themselves! And not only are they doing it themselves but they are working in teams, sometimes with young juveniles aswell! This is great news in the fight against poachers. Now all we need is for the Gorillas to find the poachers setting the snares and those poachers are going to have a serious think before setting foot on that mountain again!
Gorilla Vs Poacher • Opuss № I