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Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1083
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:45 am: | 
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DAKAR, Senegal - Rebels in eastern Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, conservationists said Wednesday, warning they fear more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region.
Only about 700 mountain gorillas remain in the world, 380 of them spread across a range of volcanic mountains straddling the borders of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda in Central Africa.
One dismembered gorilla corpse was found Tuesday in a pit latrine in Congo's Virunga National Park, a few hundred yards from a park patrol post that was abandoned because of rebel attacks, according to the London-based Africa Conservation Fund. Another was killed in the same area on Jan. 5, said the group, which based its report on conservationists in the field.
The group blamed rebels loyal to a local warlord, Laurent Nkunda, for the latest killing. Nkunda is a renegade soldier who commands thousands of fighters in the vast country's east who have in recent years assaulted cities and clashed sporadically with government forces.
Silverbacks are older adult males and usually group leaders, though some are loners.
Paulin Ngobobo, a senior park warden, wrote an Internet blog about finding the latest remains.
"We've learned a lot: the gorilla had in fact been eaten for meat. His name was Karema, another solitary silverback that had been born into a habituated group — meaning that he had grown to trust humans enough to let them come to within touching distance," Ngobobo wrote.
"We learned that the remaining gorillas are extremely vulnerable — the rebels are after the meat, and it's not difficult for them to find and kill the few gorillas that remain."
Ngobobo said the first gorilla reported killed had been shot by rebels and eaten.
"A local farmer was ordered to help the rebels collect the meat of the gorilla," Ngobobo said. "He told them that the meat was dangerous to eat, and immediately informed us."
Robert Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who accompanied Ngobobo, said: "We need to impress on Nkunda and his men that it is inexcusable to destroy national and world heritage of such critical importance. ... Now that we know that the slaughtered gorilla was eaten, the gorillas habituated for tourism are at extreme risk — and we are worried that more have been killed already."
The last remaining hippo populations in Congo are in Virunga and are also on the verge of being wiped out. Conservationists have blamed rebels and militias for slaughtering them, and say more than 400 were killed last year, mostly for food. Only 900 hippos remain, a huge drop from the 22,000 reported there in 1998.
Virunga park has been ravaged by poachers and deforestation for more than a decade. The 1994 Rwandan genocide saw millions of refugees spill into Congo, marking the beginning of an era of unrest, lawlessness and clashes between militias and rebel groups.
Mineral-rich Congo, which held its first democratic elections in more than four decades last year, is struggling to recover from a 1998-2002 war that drew in the armies of more than half a dozen African nations.
The job of protecting the country's parks falls on local rangers, and the risks are high. In Virunga alone, some 97 rangers have died on duty since 1996, the Africa Conservation Fund said.
On his blog, Ngobobo also described being shot at and beaten by the military, who he and other rangers were trying to persuade to stop cutting down the forest.
Richard Leakey, a conservationist credited with helping end the slaughter of elephants in Kenya during the 1980s, said: "The survival of these last remaining mountain gorillas should be one of humanity's greatest priorities. Their future lies with a small number of very brave rangers risking their lives with very little support from the outside world."
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1556
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 01:00 am: |
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No need to even comment......... |
Lil_ze
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Username: Lil_ze
Post Number: 674
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 01:49 am: |
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seems "par for the course" amongst some of the natives of africa.
remind me NEVER to go to the congo for a vacation. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7892
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 08:40 am: |
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To the West, they may have been these rare and treasured animals. To starving Africans, they were just food.
DEE END. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 4084
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 09:31 am: |
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Abm, it's amazing how some of us can only see things through western eyes. I mean, it's not like we've been included in western affairs for very long. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7896
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 10:15 am: |
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Tonya,
We are ALL a part of the food chain. We will all consume. And will all ultimately BE consumed.
If there's between my starving to death a rare or endangered silverback gorilla (humpback whale, spotted owl or bald eagle), that there's gone be one ROASTEDA$$ gorilla (whale, owl or eagle). |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1599
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 10:49 am: |
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abm and tonya:
right.... |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 153
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 11:57 am: |
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Out of necessity some chose to eat pig intestines (chitterlings). Others choose gorillas. Food is food. It's a simple fact, as ABM and Tonya have pointed out. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4069
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:34 pm: |
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Being a North African, I've eaten a LOT of lion (the baby lions).
East Africans eat it even moreso.
In Los Angeles, it's become a popular dish at Ethiopian restaurants. You see Black Americans lined up on Wilshire Blvd. to have them some Soy Sauce Lion in marsala pepper.
A lot you men eat pussy anyway, though.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7903
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:53 pm: |
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Kola,
A lot of you women do too.
*lap-lap* |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7904
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:53 pm: |
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Kola,
Btw: How does lion taste? And PUUULEASE don't tell me it tastes like chicken. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6779
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 02:51 pm: |
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Nobody lamenting dog-as-a-delicacy in China and Korea? Ruff. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4071
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 03:01 pm: |
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ABM,
Lion is a white meat and tastes like SHARK.
Very lean and delicious like a STEAK.
(Shark and Lion taste like T-bone steak)
It's very tender if you eat the cubs.
If you eat the ADULT LION, then it's tougher meat and tastes like the dark meat of a Turkey.
Crocodile tastes like PORK, but is nasty if you allow it to cook in the fat it makes.
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Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4072
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 03:02 pm: |
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You have to keep pouring off the fat...is the secret to delicious crocodile (you cook it just like chicken breast, very easy).
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7908
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 03:21 pm: |
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Kola,
I've had and liked shark before. And I have had 'gator (Man! That cajun cooking is GARUNTEED!!!)
Might try some lion. Though I'd probably feel too guilty about snarfing down a cub.
Unless, of course, I'm really HUNGRY. In which case, Sorry cub. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4075
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 03:29 pm: |
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ABM, you would never know it's a cub.
In "raw state", freshly washed, it looks like very large chicken breast.
But you're a MAN---so I would not let you see it in raw state.
The meat is roasted tender and cut away from the bone in "shards" (like chicken leg meat), then piled up in pepper and covered in Soy Sauce or African pepper sauce or Sweet & Sour.
It is DEEEEE-lish.
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1751
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 03:45 pm: |
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I've had alligator, too...in Louisiana. A friend of mine here in Atlanta has it shipped to him from time to time. Tastes very much like catfish to me. I still don't have the nerve to try frogs legs. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7914
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 04:14 pm: |
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Kola: "But you're a MAN---so I would not let you see it in raw state."
Are we still talking about food here? Or are we rappin' about something else?
Hehehehehe!!! |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4082
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 04:16 pm: |
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LOL.
I was just trying to be cute. 
Which isn't very cute anymore.
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Latina_wi
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Username: Latina_wi
Post Number: 87
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:32 pm: |
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I think this is very sad but I agree with what ABM and Tonya said.
Cut throat world out there for some. |
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