A
heartbreaking photo has surfaced of a park ranger comforting a gorilla that had
just lost its mother to poachers.
Photo: Phil
Moore/AFP/Getty Images
In this
photo, Patrick Karabaranga, a ranger at the Virunga National Park in eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo, sits with an orphaned mountain gorilla in the
park’s gorilla sanctuary. The gorilla appears to be showing his appreciation
for the sympathy by placing his hand on the ranger’s leg.
This
gorilla, like the other three orphans currently living in the sanctuary, were
brought there after their parents were killed by poachers or as a result of
illegal attempts by traffickers to smuggle them out of the park.
With more
than 200 mountain gorillas, Virunga National Park accounts for about a quarter
of the world’s mountain gorilla population.
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