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I'm afraid those baby "Gorillas" will be harmed :(...But I think it's great that more are being produced..hopefully half will survive to keep the generation flowing!!
ReplyDeleteThere is good and bad news in the article ten new babies have been born but three gorillas have been killed. It also said ten were killed there year before that. I wonder if they are going to measures to make sure the new babies aren't going to meet the same fate.
ReplyDeleteI think it is great that the gorillas are continuing to increase in numbers, but unfortunate that their home, and sometimes lives, are being endangered by greedy humans who have no right to be there. Hopefully they will be able to keep tabs on the gorillas and protect the infants from meeting an untimely death.
ReplyDeleteI think this article's news should be taken with a grain of salt. Of course it is good news to hear of 10 births, but the article hints at the severe endangerment of the mtn gorillas. Their environment hasn't changed: the economy has worsened and the civil wars still rage, only adding to the reasons for poaching. Increased population is encouraging, but short-lived. Legislation will do little to obliterate their destruction.
ReplyDeleteIts great that more gorillas were born!! But this is second bloodiest year for gorillas, thats horrible. I just hope that protection for these animals increases, but i fear that wont happen in there environment.
ReplyDeleteThanks for some very thoughtful comments...you all are really quite a group of APES yourselves!
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I guess we'll just have to get Anna: the gorilla stalker out there to protect them!
ReplyDeleteWhat a marvelous idea! She would do well.....
ReplyDeletei kinda had mixed emotions about this article. on the one hand, its great that the number of gorillas being born is going up but on the other hand the gorillas had their bloodiest year ever.
ReplyDeleteI understand that we want to do whatever we can to save these little fellows but the truth is that most likely some will either be killed or taken as pets or prizes. Its a ruthless market because the stalkers know what the animals are capable of but still kill them and in some cases to survive themselves. Its great the population is rising but with civil war and ever crippling governments of these countries, something extremely major and I mean on a massive D-Day size scale would have to happen to keep these gorillas from becoming extinct.
ReplyDeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteIs it really that hopeless?
Its not totally hopeless because D-Day was a success =) But it is going to take an awful lot to boost numbers to a point where they are not fearing for their lives and being wiped off the face of the planet. Its possible but to me unlikely because we have been fighting a very long time and not a lot has been done. I don't mean to be a downer but that is how I see it.
ReplyDeleteno, those are very valid points....it is just sad to hear them pointed out so matter of fact - you know?
ReplyDeleteYeah its depressing but with the hard facts people tend to butter things up and see them as better then they are and that is a bad thing to do. The extremely low number of gorillas is something that can not be twisted and buttered up and with the 10 births, it only brings the numbers up slightly and not immensely like what need to happen.
ReplyDeleteWhat do the rest of you think of Chris's comments?
ReplyDeleteNice Job Chris!
I think Chris is depressing but completely true. While ten gorillas being born is wonderful it is an insignificant number when you think of the rest of the population. At that rate it would take years for the gorillas to make any noticeable progress or impact on the population numbers, and you can't ignore the deteriating economy which just further complicates the gorillas survival efforts.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think we should so like in our movie and have Sara and I become the next Jane Fossey's along with secretly giving the female gorillas fertility treatments (inject them in their sleep so they will have like triplets every year!) :)
Matt that's interesting!!!! I doubt Sara would agree!!!
ReplyDeleteany birth is a good one, even though some have gone missing any progress being made that keeps them farther from extinction is good. so you know what, let us positive people bee happy for a while till you trample on our positiveness with your grimmy cruddy nasty poopy paws. i agree with matmat let them have tripplets!
ReplyDeleteChris made very valid points! Yes there were 10 births, and the population does seem to be increasing, but we can not let the fact that there are few mountain gorilla's left in the world slip our minds. Looking ahead, these 10 gorillas aren't enough to make an impact because they will more then likely be poached by insensative humans by the time another 10 are born!
ReplyDeleteBrittney,
ReplyDeletethat is a great point and I think we tend to get overexcited about good things. It allows us to forget the bad, for a moment.
I agree with wolfie.We have to embrace any progress and be positive. This area the gorillas thrive in is definitely a time bomb that can go off. Local tourism has been encouraged and this has slowly benefited the gorillas.Hopefully the war and threats of mass genocide will come to a slow halt and this area could greatly transform with more tourism and more hospitable tourism friendly places. The change in this area should hopefully reflect on the fact this is the last home to a brilliant species that shares 98 percent of our DNA and a species that can love and communicate.
ReplyDeleteFirst i have to say that this is my first bloggingmajiggy time ever. Im sorry Mrs.B, im just slightly computerly bad. ):
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Im very happy that more little babies are being born, but like the rest of you i have to also look at the glass half empty side, which is that the disgusting murder of these gorillas is continuing & some are even missing. However, hopefully this is the "baby boom" of gorillas.(:
ohh yeah
ReplyDeletep.s. i also shall need the same thing powerpoint stuff that christopher asked for.
thanks a bunches [:
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justin says:
ReplyDelete"This article said that within the past sixteen months the baby Gorilla population has increased by ten. That's good news and no one should try and find fault in that. You have to take this article with a grain of salt. There are going to be, due to circumstances that surround the situation, Gorillas that are killed. But, over the last sixteen months, the population has stayed relatively static. While it's not rising, which would be great news, it is also not decreasing, which would be bad news. As a nation, we tend to focus on the negative aspects of a story. 'If it bleeds, it leads.' That mentality is very cynical and needs to be fixed. The truth of the matter is, ten births within the past sixteen months is great news. No matter what the media says. We should focus on the bigger picture here instead of focus mainly on the fact that before the insurgents, the Gorilla's witnessed their bloodiest year. I am in no way saying that something should not be done about that. What I am saying is in the short-term, the Gorilla population is increasing. Take advantage of good news when it comes up. It doesn't seem to come around lately..."
Morgan,
ReplyDeleteGot you covered on the powerpoints. How do you want them? Email or on a drive?
I have some mixed emotions about this article. On one hand it is great that the Gorillas are reproducing but unfortunately there is always going to be poaching. You cannot stop the poaching because its seemingly impossible. I mean what are they going to do have thousands of park rangers roaming the area each and every day checking for poaching and traps? The mountains are very vast and and spread out it would take more than thousands of people to cover it every day and would cost a pretty penny.
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