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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION

In 2014 the documentary film Virunga was produced by famed Hollywood actor and direc- tor Leonardo DiCaprio. The award-winning picture follows a brave group of rangers, including an ex-child soldier and an expert in the care of orphaned gorillas, as they protect the park (named

numbers are rapidly dwindling because their habitat is in- creasingly being destroyed by logging and mining. Even in areas that are supposed to be formally protected by the government, illegal plantations and settlements are still be- ing built, posing more peril to the orangutans. Conservationists and activists are not standing by help- lessly while the orangutans die out. Besides pressuring the a world heritage site by the United Nations Education- al, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO) from armed militia , poachers, and the other dangers threaten- ing some of the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas. The movie’s tagline is, “Conservation is war!”

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