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British gorilla specialist killed in Cameroon
photo by Arenddehaas (source: Wikimedia Commons)
Primatologist Ymke Warren has been murdered in her home in the upscale neighborhood of Limbe, Cameroon. The murder took place on Tuesday morning when an assailant, who had presumably been hiding in Warren’s attic, attacked her with a machete.
Warren lived together with partner Aaron Nicholas, also a primatologist and director of a gorilla project in Cameroon, who returned home minutes after the attack. Nicholas took Warren to the hospital, but her injuries were too severe.
The couple were working on the Takamanda-Mone Landscape Project, run by the American Wildlife Conservation Society. They were studying Cross River gorillas, one of west Africa’s most threatened primate populations.
–Telegraph
Ymke Warren ran the Dian Fossey Project – herself murdered in Rwanda in 1985 – after escaping the genocide in the central African country.
It is not as of yet known why Warren was killed.
Read more about this tragic story in the Telegraph: ‘British gorilla expert murdered in Cameroon’
Additional resources:
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
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