World news | The Guardian•Mar 24
‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC
A second set of mountain gorilla twins has been born in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in what conservationists are celebrating as an “extraordinary” event for the endangered primates. In January, Virunga national park announced that a female mountain gorilla called Mafuko had given birth to twins. Over the past 20 years, more than 220 rangers have been killed in the park, where rebel groups such as M23 and other militias, as well as bandits, operate with impunity.
