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Democratic Republic of the Congo: the two lives of the gorilla Ndakasi

2021-10-22T04:24:00.745Z


REPORT - His first life, in the wild, was stolen from him at the age of 2 months when men murdered his mother. She spent her second, surrounded by her rescuers, in the only orphanage for mountain gorillas, in the Virunga National Park.


In the thick darkness of the night torn by a furious storm, the soggy rain cloaks of the rangers reflect the light of the torches that illuminate a towering gorilla lying on the ground.

She is dead.

Her name was Nyiransekuye (someone happy to welcome others), a female from the Kabirizi family.

Bullets from an AK-47, caliber 7.62 mm, tore his life.

All around, raindrops fall heavily on the lush vegetation covering the slopes of the Mikeno volcano;

thick drops, like the tears of the men who frame the corpse.

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Still clinging to his chest, his child.

Why, and how did she survive?

No one knows.

She is dehydrated, disoriented, in shock.

The rangers of the Virunga National Park, nestled in the Great Lakes region in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believe she will not survive.

This terrible night of July 8, 2007, she spends it in the arms of the ranger André

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Source: lefigaro

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