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Keeping the Mountain Gorillas safe and encouraging eco-tourism instead of poaching is benefiting the people of Rwanda.
The money from the tourists, funds projects that lift local people out of poverty and give their children a future.

Letting the baby gorillas live is in turn letting the human children live.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-develo...ty-tourism

This is a sustainable situation. Poaching brought in some money, but as the numbers of gorillas declined it was clear that it was a dead end way to do things. This is life giving and life changing. Everybody benefits(except the people who buy the products of poaching and I don't want them to win).

This just goes to show what a little common sense can achieve!!

I am hoping it is catching or rather that it catches on. After all, whale watching is sustainable income, whale killing is not.

Isn't this like the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs. While it was alive it laid eggs. It was a good steady income. Killing the goose for the gold would clearly stop the source of the gold. Your right, this is a common sense issue.