As renegade Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) general, Laurent Nkunda, wages a personal war in the east of the country, somewhere in the outskirts of Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, a small group of dedicated conservationists go about their business rehabilitating orphaned bonobos (sometimes called pygmy chimpanzees). This small team is stationed at a sanctuary called Lola ya Bonobo (which means "paradise for bonobos" in Lingala, the main language of Kinshasa) and in recent days, they have been bracing themselves for an increase in the number of bonobo orphans being brought to them to take care of.
Readers of the Lola ya Bonobo blog at WildlifeDirect have been asking; Is the war in the east affecting your bonobos? They don't know how the war will affect the bonobos. They don't know how many will be killed, but they have witnessed a spike in the number of orphaned bonobos arrive in the sanctuary after a war.
You see, Nkunda's forces can go for many months without getting paid; and so can government forces and the pro-government Mai Mai militia, all who are involved in the most senseless and confused fighting in recent times. To survive, they hunt in the forest. They could be killing the adult bonobos and letting the babies go.
Nobody really knows why so many orphans show up at Lola ya Bonobo during and after war, but in the words of Claudine Andre, the sanctuary's founder, it is "either because the soldiers aren't hungry enough to eat the infants or because they are so hungry they are hunting more than usual."
The team at Lola ya Bonobo are hoping that since the fighting is happening outside the region with the highest concentration of bonobos, this peaceful great ape, whose genetic makeup is closest to that of humans, will not suffer much persecution. They are however aware that this is very unlikely.
Bonobos are only found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lola ya Bonobo is the only bonobo sanctuary in the world. Please donate to help Lola ya Bonobo save these peaceful creatures
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