‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Mongabay
Feb 26, 2025, 7:34 pm186 pts
On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a foraging troop, finally dispatching his bullet on his mark. It was a giant male, he says, struck in the chest. “When I came close to the dead body, it was exactly like a human being. The…

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