Arrest Made in Congo Gorilla Massacre

A park ranger has been arrested for masterminding the massacre of approximately ten critically endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. These gorillas, known to researchers and observers as the Rugendo gorilla family, were senselessly slaughtered last July. Only 700 of these mountain gorillas still exist in the wild, and less than 100 are in the Congo portion of the Virunga Range which also is in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. The population of mountain gorillas has stablized and even shown some increases this decade after many years of decline. Koko, the gorilla many have heard of that was trained in sign language, was a Mountain Gorilla.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/ranger-arrested-in-gorilla-slaughter/20080319164409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_gorilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virunga_National_Park

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