Gorillas threatened by climate change - UN

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In the lush mountains of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, a family of gorillas is lazing in the sun. They might seem relaxed, but as the climate is heating up these great apes are finding it more difficult to find food.
In the lush mountains of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, a family of gorillas is lazing in the sun. They might seem relaxed, but as the climate is heating up these great apes are finding it more difficult to find food.

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06 Dec 2011 01:38a.m.

Fred Johnson wrote:

Who write this stuff. It is so easy to just write garbage that is full of half truths. So lets look at the truth. The gorillas are going higher up the mountain in Rwanda because there is no forest down low. It is all gone and been replaced by small farms. The gorillas do go down to the edges of volcanoes national park, if you have ever been there you would know that. There is a very distinct border between the Park and the rest of Rwanda. i.e. a rock fence. The Batwa are a small minority in Rwanda, less than 0.5 percent of the population of Rwanda. There are a number of Batwa villages around the Park where the gorillas are, but this article makes it seem like they are the ones instigating the tree planting. They are not, the Rwandan government is. And they are not replanting the ' forest' it is monoculture tree planting. This will provide wood for the large population around the park, but is certainly won't replace the forest. Think about it folks. If you cut down every tree down in a forest and you replace it with one type of tree, is it still a forest? Lazy journalism. There are many fantastic stories to be written about this part of the world, like population pressures, soil degradation, the successes and failures in the development of the Batwa but this wasn't a story worth writing.

06 Dec 2011 01:37a.m.

Fred Johnson wrote:

Who write this stuff. It is so easy to just write garbage that is full of half truths. So lets look at the truth. The gorillas are going higher up the mountain in Rwanda because there is no forest down low. It is all gone and been replaced by small farms. The gorillas do go down to the edges of volcanoes national park, if you have ever been there you would know that. There is a very distinct border between the Park and the rest of Rwanda. i.e. a rock fence. The Batwa are a small minority in Rwanda, less than 0.5 percent of the population of Rwanda. There are a number of Batwa villages around the Park where the gorillas are, but this article makes it seem like they are the ones instigating the tree planting. They are not, the Rwandan government is. And they are not replanting the ' forest' it is monoculture tree planting. This will provide wood for the large population around the park, but is certainly won't replace the forest. Think about it folks. If you cut down every tree down in a forest and you replace it with one type of tree, is it still a forest? Lazy journalism. There are many fantastic stories to be written about this part of the world, like population pressures, soil degradation, the successes and failures in the development of the Batwa but this wasn't a story worth writing.