Ranger Arrested in Killing of Gorillas

[truthpusher]

Source: ap/abc news

Ranger Arrested in Killing of Gorillas
Ranger Allegedly Arranged Massacre to Deter Protection Efforts
The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Congo

A park ranger has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the massacre of endangered mountain guerrillas, conservationists said Wednesday.

Honore Mashagiro, a ranger in Congo's Virunga National Park, is the chief suspect in the slaying last summer of 10 gorillas who belonged to a group known to environmentalists as the Rugendo family.

Mashagiro is accused of arranging the mass killing to deter conservationists who were trying to prevent the destruction of the animals' rainforest habitat, the international conservation group WildlifeDirect said.

Loggers cut down the forest's trees to make charcoal, a lucrative business. "This threatened the gorilla habitat, so when the rangers tried to protect the forest, he allegedly orchestrated the gorilla massacres to discourage them," the group said.

Only about 700 mountain gorillas remain in the world, an estimated 380 of them in the Virunga


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4482861

---

[Lint Head]

1. This is so sad.

:-(

[Bonobo]

2. He killed 10 out of 700 remaining mountain gorillas.

No death is too evil for him.

[truthpusher]

11. about 1.4% of the population wiped out.... 95 million plus dead for us.

[Scout]

3. ohmigod, that fucking bastard. i believe in a painful death penalty

for crimes like this.

to me, those gorillas were much more valuable than that piece of shit of "human"

[pitohui]

6. he may have thought he was helping his own people financially

i hate to defend the guy but the situation in the congo has been very dire

[natrat]

4. cant decide who i hate more-the japanese whale killers, this prick or darth

[pitohui]

5. this is awful

trees cut down for charcoal and after that it's deforested nothingness

i imagine this man was paid for his efforts, i seriously doubt that he's the one who was going to benefit from the charcoal franchise

we need to find a way to make sure locals benefit from having wildlife preserves, an awful lot of people must not have been getting anything out of the tourists when they're thinking the best thing to do is cut down all the trees and make some crappy charcoal -- hell, considering it's the congo it may have been AGES since they've had any tourists spending any money, you hear such awful things, it would seem easier to go to uganda to see gorillas

once the forest was gone, to continue the charcoal making i believe they would likely replant in eucalyptus and after that it's forever a fake environment always at high risk of fire -- incredibly ugly and destructive to the environment and the spirit

but let's not kid ourselves, one guy didn't do this of his own initiative -- he was paid by others who expected to profit from this in my humble opinion

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Seems like the gorillas should have a say in what happens to him

fucking prick :grr::cry:

[ellie]

8. Aww. I hope they shoot him.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. What a complete POS...

It makes me sick to see the gorilla family laid out in the photo.

[GOPNotForMe]

10. So hard not to be misanthropic with stories like this one... nt

[LeftyMom]

12. There are only 800 or so mountain gorillas left.

:cry:

[xchrom]

13. may bad, bad things happen to him repeatedly.

:grr: :nuke: :grr: