There are approximately 790 Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) worldwide (spring 2010). For that they are concidered as critically endangered species. In wild they only live in Africa in two populations, both in national parks: one in the Virunga volcanic mountains (Uganda, Rwanda and Congo) and other in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Rwanda).
In 2007 in less than two months seven Mountain Gorillas were murdered in Virunga National Park in Congo. They were killed in executional-style and no body parts as hands and heads were removed as poachers usually do. So there were many whom to suspect starting from park rangers, soldiers engaged in a three-way guerilla war between rival militias and the Congolese army, poachers and ending up with hordes of illegal charcoal producers.
In the picture above: grieving villagers carried Senkwekwe, a 500-pound silverback, from Virunga park on July 24. As Congo is corrupted, You never know who is friend and who is enemy and these intelligent creatures of the Earth aren´t protected even in national parks.
More and more endangered species are fading out as people concerne themselves more justified to use the land and the resources of the nature, than many creatures nature has given to Earth to share it with us. From this point it´s ashame to be one of the people. What we as individuals can to against this?