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Hello, Will from WildlifeDirect here. Elie left very early this morning to patrol the Mikeno Sector, where the gorilla killings took place. I was not awake when he left but he did leave the following message outside my tent, to post up here on his blog (English version below) C’est avec tristesse que la Force Avancée a reçu la mauvaise nouvelle sur la écocide de gorilles de montagne dont le nombre jusque la se lévè à 7 gorilles habitués de famille Kabirizi et Rugendo tuées par des inciviques. Ainsi pour sauver les restes qui peut-être traumatisés par les coup des bals des inciviques. L’urgence nous oblige de préparer ce qui suit:
La Troupe I reste pour sécuriser la station de Mutsora. Nous serons à Rumangabo pour 3 mois sur-ce il n’y aura pas beaucoup sur mon blog. Pour plus d’information visiter le site Gorilla Protection. Kwaheri tuonane tena baadaye Elie In english: It with sadness that the Advance Force received the terrible news on the killings of mountain gorillas, the number of which has risen to 7 habituated gorillas from the Kabirizi and Rugendo families. In order to save those that remain, who may still be traumatised by the gun shots, it is with urgency that we must arrange the following:
Troop I will remain at the Mutsora Station, to keep it secure. We will be stationed at Rumangabo for three months, and because of this you will not see much activity on my blog. For more information please visit the Gorilla Protection site. Kwaheri tuonane tena baadaye Elie As most of you would have seen from Paulin’s blog, a strategy is being put into place to protect the remaining gorillas. This will involve constant patrolling of the park, both within and along the park boundaries, as well as a small group of rangers providing around the clock protection to each family of gorillas: “This approach is extremely intensive, and unfortunately depletes other parts of the park of their rangers, but given the crisis, we will have to maintain it for at least three months. The approach is also extremely expensive (maintaing 33 rangers on operations will cost close to $5000/month), and your donations have played a huge role in making it possible (we can fund this operation for about 3 months). We’re extremely grateful for that help.” If you are reading this and you want to help further we here at WildlifeDirect have put together some campaign material. Send an email to gorillacampaign@wildlifedirect.org, and simply put in the title of the email, “I want to help campaign for the Mikeno Gorillas” and we will send you further information. Thank you.
9 Comments posted on "On Patrol in Gorilla Sector/How you can help"
sheryl on July 29th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Bonne chance, Elie. Be careful and thank you for all your work to protect the gorillas. s.
dr,antonio canella on July 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Bon travail Elie , beacoup de gens in Italie te remercie pour ton travail et pour le travail de ton rangers. La votre c’est une guerre contre la barbarie et pour le futur de votre pays.Bonne chance e que Dieu soit avec vous et tout le peuple de la Republique Democratique du Congo
Alasdair Davies on July 29th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Hi guys, have been watching the news terrible news. Wishing you all the best on your patrols Ellie, and also that you come home safely. I’ll keep up to date with Jonathan on Skype, but hope you are all well back at Mutsora. I have a web app here that I need to send across to you guys, it should help you out… Will get intouch when its finished. All the best, Al
Maria Opdycke on July 30th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Will - I just tried to email gorillaprotection@wildlifedirect.org and it came back undeliverable. i’ll give it another try, but you might want to make sure it is working… thx
Yvonne Neblett on July 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Be careful Elie, and may God bless and keep safe you and all your wonderful rangers for protecting these gentle giants.
sheryl on July 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Maria, the address was mistyped. The e-mail addy is gorillacampaign@wildlifedirect.com. s.
Will on August 9th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I’ve changed the email now, thanks for pointing it out Maria, and thanks Sheryl for the correction. We’ve been so busy here..
Ben Anderson on August 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
My Dear Friend Ellie, I am home at at last for a rest ( I have been reporting on the fighting in Southern Afghanistan, so have lots of stories to tell you- we were attacked by the Taliban too many times!) and was planning to finally contact you again when I got the terrible news and saw the awful pictures. I know you will all keep going and won’t lose heart for a second, but my thoughts are with you anyway. And this probably doesn’t mean much now, but our film about you was so well received, everyone said that you and your men are heroes beyond belief. I had to interviews about all the programmes I made and they kept trying to get me talking about other places and people, but I kept going back to the Rangers of Congo again and again. Did you get to see the film yet? I know there is no need to wish you courage Ellie, because you all have more than enough, but bon chance. I will try and send some of the things people wrote about the rangers…….speak soon. Ben
Elena from Happy Hollow Zoo on August 9th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
You and your team are in our hearts and prayers. Vanessa is putting some wonderful things into action on this end which we hope will be of great help to all of you. Much love to all of you from all of us. Post a comment
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