I recently became aware of this organization. A little about them:
Virunga is truly the crown jewel of Africa’s national parks. The park contains over 50% of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity and is home to about 200 of the earth’s last 720 critically endangered mountain gorillas. Virunga is also the second oldest national park in the world, behind only Yellowstone. Despite this, the forests and amazing animals of the park, most notably the mountain gorilla, are in a desperate fight for their survival.
For more information, visit their webpage:
http://gorillacd.org/
Here is the video from a recent operation which resulted in the rescue of a baby gorilla and the arrest of a trafficker at Goma Airport:
Sometimes happy endings can be salvaged, as evidenced in this video of the much happier baby:
If you feel compelled to help in some way, I have just the thing for you! This puts a whole new spin on "Adopting-an-acre" of rainforest... you actually do select an exact patch of rainforest, and pay to keep YOUR patch patrolled and free of poachers/snares! How cool is that?!? Check it out:
http://gorillacd.org/protect-the-park/
If anyone is looking for gift ideas for me... :)
Think it sounds neat? Read more!!!
http://gorillacd.org/2009/05/14/protect-the-park/
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