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Central Africa's Orphan Gorillas The Orphans were dependent on the project protection des Gorillas (PPG.) This 12 yr. old project searches for orphaned gorillas rescues and raise them in a healthy group environment to be released into one of two sanctuaries Congo and Gabon. Although there real origins are unsure most were probably "bush-meat orphans": Their mothers killed by hunters who butcher and smoke the meat in jungle camps to be shipped to cities and villages …

…are stay with the Tchimpounga orphans would be transferred to the Lesio Louna Sanctuary in the Lefini Reserve. There, Despina a Greek woman cares for them. She was not schooled as a field biologist, and her work does not follow strict rules for scientific research. She describes gorilla social ladder in anthropomorphic terms. John Aspinall underwrites the PPG program; late last year he finalized plans to translocate two gorillas to Mphassa, fulfilling a lifelong dream.