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Baby gorillas to get new sanctuary in east Congo

The Associated Press    Translate This Article
20 November 2009

GOMA, Congo (AP) - Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain gorillas.

Virunga National Park [in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo] spokeswoman Samantha Newport says the park is building a sanctuary where schoolchildren and tourists can observe the 2½-year-old orphan gorillas from hidden platforms. [Virunga National Park is located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda.]

Female orphans Ndeze and Ndakasi were abandoned in 2007 and are the world's only captive baby mountain gorillas.

Because of violence in eastern [Democratic Republic of the] Congo, the two have been living far from their natural habitat in a house in the large, traffic-choked city of Goma.

Virunga National Park is home to 200 of the world's 720 remaining mountain gorillas.

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