The coincidence couldn't be more unfortunate. The forest that half the world's [?] mountain gorillas call home, also [?] one of the most strategically important regions to rebels fighting government troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
An uneasy truce that had lasted for years finally [?] five weeks ago, forcing most of the [?] rangers protecting the gorillas to flee to [?] towns. Some had been able to take advantage of a recent stalemate to return to the forests and [?] two gorilla families, but now all have been driven out. According to Wildlife Direct, which supports the [?], the rebels even tried to force some to join their fight. Rangers [?] in a nearby town reported hearing shelling and [?] gunfire from the forests.
Wildlife Direct's Samantha Newport said without the rangers the mountain gorillas are completely unprotected and unmonitored. There are only about [?] gorillas left in the wild; according to the last census, some [?] of them in the eastern Congo. They aren't targets in this fight but according to Wildlife Direct they could so easily get [?] in the crossfire. With so few left in the wild even one death represents a significant [?].
Peter Greste, BBC News, Johannesburg
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