Nearly 700 rangers in Virunga park risk their lives to protect its wildlife in a region that has seen more than two decades of armed conflict and instability. Neighboring Rwanda and Uganda also have some of the mountain gorillas and together their population is more than 1,000. Virunga National Park in eastern Congo is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas. 'I loved her like a child and her cheerful personality brought a smile to my face every time I interacted with her,' he said in the statement. 'It was Ndakasi's sweet nature and intelligence that helped me to understand the connection between humans and great apes and why we should do everything in our power to protect them.'īauma said he was proud to have called Ndakasi a friend. 'It was a privilege to support and care for such a loving creature,' Bauma said in a statement. The mountain gorilla's life was featured in shows and the documentary film 'Virunga,' and she gained internet fame in 2019 for a photo that featured her standing relaxed on two feet, with her belly out next to another gorilla, Ndeze, and with another ranger in the foreground taking the selfie. She was transferred to the Senkwekwe Center after its creation in 2009 and lived with other orphaned mountain gorillas viewed as too vulnerable to return to the wild. Bauma comforted her that first night by holding her to his bare chest and he continued caring for her since then. Ndakasi was just two months old when rangers found her clinging to the lifeless body of her mother who had been gunned down by armed militia in 2007.

26 following a prolonged illness in which her condition rapidly deteriorated.

'Ndakasi took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre Bauma,' said the statement, adding that she died on Sept. 'It is with heartfelt sadness that Virunga announces the death of beloved orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, who had been under the care of the park's Senkwekwe Center for more than a decade,' a statement from the park said this week. KINSHASA, Congo - Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. There you will find Yennefer fighting muckixers (level 17). Join the conversation and then follow the druid to the forest. The 14-year-old mountain gorilla Ndakasi has died after a long illness, the park said. After completing the first quest The King is Dead - Long Live the King, go East from the druids camp, where you will meet Yennefer and Mousesack. Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger and caretaker at the Senkwekwe Center for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas, poses for a photo with female orphaned gorillas Ndakasi, left, and Ndeze, center, at the the Senkwekwe Center for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas in Virunga National Park, eastern Congo in 2019.

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