Virunga
Protect us, and help us to account
for each day of our lives.
Oh, Congo.
trying to rebuild this country.
Charlie 5 says that
If you listen carefully,
they're shooting to show their presence.
This is an illegal settlement.
Some rebels.
Where are the people who were with you?
I don't know.
Quiet! Keep your voice down.
I don't know.
So where are they?
They've gone away.
Isn't this poaching?
It wasn't me.
The one who ran away
is the one who killed it.
Just as I'd finished primary school,
we were recruited secretly in our town.
They told us, "You're leaving...
We're sending you to university.
To the best university in the world!"
You have to follow
If you attempt to escape,
they'll kill you.
was 15 years old.
Among many dead bodies I found his.
After we buried him,
we went on with the war.
But my mother insisted,
"You must leave the army
while you're still alive."
So I then escaped the army
to dedicate my life to the National Park.
They are the only mountain gorillas
in captivity in the world.
Ndakasi likes to play so much.
I have my human family.
I always tell them,
"You are my family...
but we have another family
in Rumangabo...
which is made up of four children."
There is Maisha, Kaboko,
Ndeze and Ndakasi.
You know that until now
we've had a big problem with poaching.
Poachers believe...
they can kill the parents
and take the baby away for sale.
This is the way we got Maisha.
Maisha was taken from poachers
who wanted to sell her.
She was rescued
Today, she is about
10 years and six months.
Kaboko is the one-handed male.
He lost the other hand
because of poaching.
Kaboko is a bit aggressive.
Maisha!
But they have
great affection for each other.
It is love.
When there was
the massacre of our gorillas,
I was out in the field.
I was among the rangers
who discovered their bodies.
It was a great tragedy.
We had a total of
nine gorillas killed.
The logic was that
once the gorillas were killed,
there would be no reason
to protect the park anymore.
Many people came to see
what had happened to the gorillas.
They helped to transport their bodies.
It was like
members of the family had died.
SB SENKWEKWE:
MOTHER:
UNKNOWNFATHER:
RUGENDOKILLED JULY 22, 2007
Ndeze and Ndakasi are the two gorillas
that survived from that family.
Their mother and the rest
were killed in 2007.
When I met her...
she was really
so weak, weak, weak!
It's truly an unbelievable thing...
to see that she is alive,
and this is the reason why I say,
"I am not only a father..."
You know that these gorillas
as you see them here,
we're not keeping them
just for the sake of keeping them.
We take care of them in order
to one day release them
back into the forest in good health.
The vowel "E."
Yes, good. Carry on.
Underneath the vowel "E,"
which vowel is it?
I may die at any time in an ambush by
people against the protection of the park.
Rangers commit to protect the park,
under very dangerous conditions
to their last breath.
130 rangers have died protecting Virunga.
I may die...
though I don't know when.
He is a small child
in whom I see lots of hope.
I think he can become a scientist.
After he has studied...
You said he needs
to study mathematics.
He can be like me for example,
you know I am a biologist.
Since you're a biologist,
he shouldn't become one, too.
He can be a geologist.
Yes, but it's still
in the sciences.
Change is good!
We don't want
people of his generation
to inherit a world or a country
as broken as ours.
WELCOME TO:
RUMANGABO STATION
The Provincial Director of
Virunga National Park.
Good morning, everyone.
I was anxious to drop by the station
at morning roll-call.
Firstly, to greet you...
but also because you will all have heard
about the new troubles for the army.
We all hope it is a temporary situation
that will be sorted out.
The army will manage the situation
and activities will continue normally.
It's important to hope for the best,
but also be ready for the worst.
It's far, right?
I was appointed Station Chief in June 2006
by the Kinshasa office
to assume management of
Virunga's central sector.
We are at the heart of
it is here that
the late President Mobutu Sese Seko's
distinguished guests stayed,
and that is where the President himself
spent the night whenever he came here.
DON'T LEAVE YOUR BUNGALOW AT NIGHT!
War has ruined everything.
When I see it destroyed like this,
I am deeply unhappy.
When we started managing this sector
in May 2010,
there was almost nothing
because there were soldiers everywhere.
However, now there are antelopes,
warthogs, elephants, lions,
and a significant number of hippos.
So there is hope,
and even buffalos are coming back.
We are sure that in the next five years
the animal population
will re-establish itself as before.
Kaboko!
Kaboko!
Maisha!
You know that the gorillas we have here
at the Senkwekwe Center,
as they grow,
they become more intelligent.
They also gain weight
and become stronger and stronger.
Even stronger than us.
So you need to know their psychology
to care for them.
You cannot force them to do something
because if they
decide to be stubborn,
you will have difficulties.
Maisha!
She wants everything for herself.
That is the reason
we use Pringles
to deal with them.
Ndakasi.
When you give them
something they like,
they realize that you're their friend.
We do not give it to them as food...
but rather as
And then,
you will always have good results.
This is the only
region in the world
where you can
still find mountain gorillas.
There are only about 800
left in the whole world.
Now if we lose them,
we will have lost
something very important for humanity.
It is thanks to the animals,
especially these gorillas,
that our forest
continues to be protected.
Tourism brings in money
to help us sustain
the conservation of nature.
There are many projects
being implemented around the park
because of our gorillas.
Virunga National Park is really important
because it contributes to
the development of our country.
VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK
WWW.GORILLA.CD
People are really optimistic that
the park will make things better.
We always feel proud
to stay in this forest
and do this work.
You think there are 60,000 people here?
I think there are more and more
because people keep arriving.
Why do people keep coming?
It's because of the M23 rebels.
How do you feel about what has been
happening to you over the last few months?
When I look at my children,
I keep asking myself,
"My God, how will they grow up
under such conditions?"
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