Cameroon Gorillas Returning Home

November 30th, 2007

BBC News report:

Four rare gorillas are being flown from South Africa to Cameroon, five years after they were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia.

The Malaysian authorities returned the four Western Lowland gorillas to South Africa in 2004 and they have since been kept at Pretoria Zoo.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare said the “Taiping Four” will now be taken to a wildlife sanctuary.

The male and three females were sedated before being put into giant crates.

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