POACHING INCREASES IN VIRUNGA

A great sense of fear among the conservation fraternity from the countries that do share the ecosystem where we can find a huge population of Mountain Gorilla after the park ranger discovered 2 dead gorillas within the first day of February 2012 in Greater Virunga Landscape .and it is believed to have been killed by poacher and a number of elephants were also killed. according to Deputy secretary Maxime Nzita Nganga who is in charge of community relations in the Greater Virunga Tran boundary Collaboration GVTC mentioned that illegal hunting has greatly increased in the latest years more so in the most unreachable areas of this large park which goes through some parts of Rwanda, DR Congo and Uganda. Usually, illegal hunters go out for the areas where people do not normally visit which are why the chose the deeper ends of the savannah.
The Director of Tourism at Rwanda Development Board (RDB) while she was addressing The New Times, she said that killing of gorilla and the elephant was unacceptable and a hazardirous to conservation practice and they therefore  condemn such a behavior that is devastating their acts conservation activities within the Greater Virunga Massif.  There will therefore be dealing with the problem of illegal hunting immediately. She added that meetings will be held in Oder to come out with ideas of how to wiping out this increasing growing of killing animals. She also appealed for 3 countries Uganda Rwanda and Congo DRC to join efforts to solve the problem and also arrest the poachers. Kibale Conservation Area, Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, and Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area in Uganda , Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Greater Virunga Landscape together with the Virunga Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda; are to join effort and work as  group with an aim ofprotecting the antelopes and other small animals which are usually hunted down for human consumption.Much as the poaching is on the side of Congo, It is very crustal to remember that they will soon be in any of the remaining countries because they fallow the movement of the animals so where they go is where they go too.  Therefore the countries will have joint patrol to arrest the poachers.
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