Silverback gorilla Rafiki, which translates as ‘friend’ in English, was killed in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, after it was discovered missing on June 1.
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The gorilla’s body was discovered the following day stabbed by what appeared to be a spear by a search party that was sent to find him.
The 25-year-old male gorilla was the leader of a group of 17 endangered mountain gorillas, called Nkuringo, consisting of three other adult males, eight females, two juveniles and three infants.
They live at the UNESCO world heritage site near Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and are very used to human contact.
Investigation of Rafiki's death ‘after a postmortem report revealed that the Silverback sustained an injury by a sharp device/object that penetrated its left upper part of the abdomen up to the internal organs’.
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Then some arrests were made.
One of the detained men, Byamykama Felix, of Murole villa, Kisoro District, was found in possession of wild hog meat, rope and wire snares and spears, the statement said.
Felix confessed to killing the gorilla in self-defence, the statement said. He said it charged at him while he and a colleague, Bampabenda Evarist, were hunting in the park.
Under a wildlife protection law, that was passed last year, if they are convicted of killing the loved animal, they could face fines of up to £4.3million or life imprisonment.
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