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Caught in the crossfire: the legendary mountain gorillas of Rwanda are in danger of being lost in the mists.(Currents)
The endangered African mountain gorillas are suffering in the aftermath of the Rwandan civil war. Ten gorillas have died within the last 18 months, and it was gunshots and spears - not natural causes - that led to their deaths.
Studied by the late primatologist Dian Fossey, and popularized worldwide by the movie Gorillas in the Mist, the world's remaining mountain gorillas are caught in the crossfire of human conflict. "The gorilla deaths are related to the war," says Dr. James Foster, director of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP), which has provided health care to the gorillas for the past decade. According to Foster, the gorillas are vulnerable to such war-related dangers as land mines, military patrols, habitat destruction and an increase in poaching and snaring activities.
Of the gorillas killed since the start of the war, three were the dominant silver-back males of family …
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