Perhaps those who eco-tour could use some of their discretionary
money to form a foundation to ship food to those who kill gorillas
for "bush-meat", thereby killing 2 birds with 1 stone - had to say
latter to make this bird-relevant [apology to any Bush folk ;-) ] -
Jim Greaves, Thompson Falls MT

At 01:01 PM 2/10/2010, tweeters-request at mailman2.u.washington.edu wrote:
>One further comment on eco-tourism: When my wife and I birded
>Uganda-Rrwanda a couple of years ago we found the villagers around
>the parks were extremely protective of the gorillas and chimps, as
>their livelihood depends almost entirely on visitors. Across the
>river in Congo it is exactly the opposite - they are killing the
>gorillas for bush meat. The Congolese cross the border and attempt
>to kill gorillas, and the Rwandans and Ugandans have armed patrols
>to control this.
>Unfortunately, the gorillas also cross, both ways, and are sometimes
>killed on the Congo side.
>Wm Mulligan