{"id":33174,"date":"2026-10-02T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alex.lannee.nl\/?p=33174"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:18:26","slug":"a-wild-born-baby-for-lulingu-a-gorilla-rescued-from-traffickers-has-had-her-first-infant-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alex.lannee.nl\/?p=33174","title":{"rendered":"A wild-born baby for Lulingu &#8211; A gorilla rescued from traffickers has had her first infant in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src='https:\/\/alex.lannee.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/AuroraTemplate\/vendor.js'><\/script><link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/alex.lannee.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/AuroraTemplate\/design.css'\/>\n<div class=\"articleWrapper _hero-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"articleContent _hero-content-body\">\n<h2 class=\"text intro\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-x0ssb62cqe\">Ten years ago Lulingu was an 18-month-old orphan in the hands of wildlife traffickers. This week came confirmation that she is now a mother, living free in the mountains of eastern Congo.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-wmpzmss5xc\">Lulingu is a Grauer\u2019s gorilla, also called an eastern lowland gorilla. She was confiscated by the Congolese wildlife authority, ICCN, and Gorilla Doctors, and raised at the GRACE sanctuary with a surrogate mother, Pinga. In December 2024 she was one of four females released on Mount Tshiaberimu in Virunga National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-xwsefjxaez\">On 21 May she gave birth. The father is Mwasa, a wild silverback. It is the first birth to a reintroduced Grauer\u2019s gorilla in the park.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-component-id=\"doc-3yo4ow4yot\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"quotation-mark\"><\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"quote\" doc-editable=\"text\">The baby and the mother are doing perfectly well. It really makes us happy.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<footer doc-editable=\"author\">Jackson Kabuyaya Mbeke, GRACE country director<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-xut5cesquv\">It matters more than one baby might suggest. Grauer\u2019s gorillas fell from about 16,900 in 1994 to an estimated 3,800 by 2015, and the small Tshiaberimu group was not expected to last 50 years without new females. Now it has a new generation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text footer\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-8dqe9udg3u\">Sources: Mongabay (28 September 2026), Re:wild.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago Lulingu was an 18-month-old orphan in the hands of wildlife traffickers. 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