In each area of Virunga poachers operate in different ways. This means that they use different kinds of traps to catch wild animals - whether it be antelope, buffaloes, elephants or rodents

Again I implore you to watch and comment. Another SERIOUS PLIGHT OF MINE!!! CARBOFURAN KILLS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big Gorilly Hugs

A few days ago I got a letter from a women named Marilyn in e-mail telling me about a doe who was shot in her lower jaw. I saw the one photo she sent me and I was so shocked and the pain this animal must have endured.

UPDATE YOU WILL LOVE...BUT READDDDDDDD...LOL Since we last blogged about the elephants of Kabaraza gradually learning to trust the men in green, the rapprochement continues. Big Gorilly Hugs

From the Predator Compensation Fund: After the positive response we got from our introduction to our Predator Compensation Fund we thought we would provide you with some more facts and photos of PCF in action!

We need to raise $103,250 to take Ndeze, and the only other orphaned, baby mountain gorilla in the world, Ndakasi, out of the dirty and dangerous conditions in which they live in the city of Goma.

The Senkwekwe Centre - the future home for the only 2 baby mountain orphan mountain gorillas IN THE WORLD - is crucially important, primarily because it'll give our orphans somewhere to live. It is as simple as that. Big Gorilly Hugs

A rooster who has been trained to fight can't be rehabilitated, right? Oh so wrong. Some of you may recall that a few months ago, during a disussion regarding the rehabilitation of pit bulls, I linked to a (heartbreaking) post that Deb Durant wrote this

Almost everyone has heard of McDonald's, and most people have eaten at the chain at least once, but many people don't know about the horrific cruelty that goes into every portion of chicken served under the Golden Arches.

Israeli Knesset Member Nitzan Horowitz has introduced the world's first nationwide bill to ban fur, called "Prohibiting the Industry of Fur." If it becomes law, this bill would prohibit the production, sale, and importation of all fur products throughout