O dear, for our Earths primates.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, ten wild mountain gorillas have been killed since 2009, from the beginning of the year. The conservation of organization Wildlife Direct says rebel troops have tried to force the wildlife rangers to join the fighting. Here is the report from Peter Greste from the BBC News, Johannesburg.

The coincidence couldn't be more unfortunate for this family of wild mountain gorillas. The forest that holds half the world's surviving mountain gorillas, also happened to be one of the most strategically important regions for rebel fighting with Government troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Wildlife rangers protecting the gorillas had to flee to the nearby towns. Some had been able to take advantage of a recent stalemate to return to the forests and continue to monitor two gorilla families, but now all have been driven out. According to Wildlife Direct, which supports the rangers, The rebels even tried to force some of the Forrest Rangers to join with their fight. Rangers sheltering in a nearby town reported hearing shelling and heavy gunfire from the forests where family's of natural born gorillas live.

Wildlife Directs Samantha Newport said without the Forrest Rangers the Mountain Gorillas are completely unprotected and unmonitored and the 700 could be hunted to extinction. There are only about seven hundred gorillas left in the wild; according to the last census! some three hundred and eighty of them in the eastern Congo region. They aren't targets in this fight but according to Wildlife Direct they could so easily get caught in the crossfire.
With so few gorillas left in the wild even one death represents a significant loss. Book club brings you a view of these gracious primates in there natural habitat, as they have been shot. Only just to be displayed to be showing as a prized joke, In the documentary above was a group of mountain gorillas. As the silver back is not given the same human rights as fellow homosapiens, it means that if extinction occurs nothing will be done. It seems there the most probably outcome in today’s society that this tragedy could happen. Book club apologises for any disturbance caused by viewing these slaughtered primates. It’s a fine tribute to humanity to allow these hunters to persist in such a manner.