Between GorillasFotogalerie: Between GorillasPočet obrázků: 20Arriving at the Bai Hokou camp. It takes an hour and a half to get there from Bayanga if things go well.
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Miroslav Bobek  Led by a BaAka guide, we are heading off to find the gorillas. We wouldn't be able to track gorillas in their natural environment without the help of BaAka tribesmen.
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Miroslav Bobek  Forest elephants represent by far the biggest danger in the Dzanga Sangha tropical rainforest.
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Miroslav Bobek  The BaAka scout shows us where the gorillas are - we are near. Daniela Hedwig on the left has been doing research into voice communication in Western Lowland Gorillas in Dzanga Sangha since January.
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Miroslav Bobek  The forest is so dense with so much contrast or dim light that it is extremely difficult to take pictures of the gorillas.
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Miroslav Bobek  Who is who? Makumba is easy to recognise, so are the three females, but what about the young? Is this Mossoko or not?
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Miroslav Bobek  Four years old Mossoko in a rare moment when he is not feeding.
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Miroslav Bobek  Gorillas almost constantly move forward through the forest and we follow. Most of the time it is not as easy as on this photo.
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Khalil Baalbaki  Kunga looking for mushrooms. Really, this is not a hyperbole or fantasizing.
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Miroslav Bobek  Mai came out of the forest to a small clearing. She briefly watched resting butterflies and then stepped among them.
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Miroslav Bobek  Bokata was the only one to wade the stream on her hind legs - while turning her head to "auntie" Bombe.
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Miroslav Bobek  Mopambi in the front, Malui in the rear. The third female, Bombe, kept aside
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16.11.2009 Twiggs was born in the wild in Cameroon around the year 1997. She and another female gorilla, Brighter, was smuggled across the border to Nigeria as infants to be sold as pets on the locale pet marked.
09.11.2009 When Pitchou was very small, she was brought to Hotel Ilomba in Kribi to be sold, after her mother had been killed by hunters. She stayed there for three days, until the hotel owners could no longer bare to watch her suffer. The family donated her to the LWC.
02.11.2009 Chella came to Limbe Wildlife Centre when he was only two years old. He was found in the back of a bush-taxi sitting on his dead mother. Wildlife officials confiscated him and kept him three weeks before bringing him to the Wildlife Centre.
21.09.2009 Adjibolo came to Limbe Wildlife Centre when she was only about 6 months old. She was confiscated by senior civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Adjibolo, from a hunter who tried to sell her.
We have repeatedly supported the rescue station in Limbe, published a book of gorilla fairy tales for Cameroon's children, we finance an education campaign in schools on the borders of the biosphere reservation Dja etc.
You can support our efforts by purchasing an item with the logo The Revealed at our shop, or by making a contribution to the collection account for The Revealed, acc. no. 555 555 552/0800, IBAN: CZ35 0800 0000 0005 5555 5552
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