New birth of a mountain gorilla in DR Congo's Virunga park
Images of a mountain gorilla (gorilla beringei beringei) holding her newborn baby in the Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The birth of a "new baby" male occurred on the morning of 22 August in the Baraka family.
The discovery was made by "a team of eco-guards" during a routine monitoring visit to the home of the gorillas in the Kibumba area of North Kivu in the east of the country, Mukisya explained.
The national park said that the new baby belonged to the Baraka family of gorillas which was 'currently composed of about 18 individuals".
"The Baraka family records its first birth of the year and this last one brings the number to 13 since January 2021," from all the gorilla families in the region, said Mukisya.
Situated on DR Congo's borders with Rwanda and Uganda, Virunga covers around 7,800 square kilometres of the North Kivu province, of which Goma is the capital.
The total population of mountain gorillas in the region covering the three countries is estimated at 1,063, according to the last full count in 2018.
