Keeper Andre Bauma paid tribute to Ndakasi, who rose to fame in a selfie published on Earth Day 2019. 'She will be missed by all of us at Virunga,' he said.
Ndakasi was brought to the park in 2007 at just two months old, after rangers from the national park in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo found her clinging to the body of her mother, Nyiransekuye. The gorilla, whose name meant"someone happy to welcome others," had been gunned down by armed militia hours before and the rest of Ndakasi's family were missing.
Though Ndakasi survived, the park said that she was too traumatized by the loss of her family and vulnerable as a result of a long rehabilitation period to return to the wild. She was transferred to the Senkwekwe Center at Virunga National Park after it was founded in 2009.mountain gorillas like Ndakasi. Experts in the center help care for and rehabilitate gorillas affected by poaching and other human activities, providing the chance for the primates to lead happy, secure lives.
The image shows Ndakasi and her partner-in-crime, Ndeze, who arrived at the park with her, behind Bauma, standing on two feet with almost mischievous grins on their faces.in these animals and it's one of the reasons Andre Bauma will miss her so dearly," park officials said of the image.Virunga National Park.and her family in 2007 that influenced the Congolese authorities to undertake extensive institutional and security reform within the Virunga National Park.
The population of mountain gorillas has grown by 47 percent since 2007, from 720 to an estimated 1,063 gorillas in 2021.
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