Natalie Portman publicly used her fame to express concern for the travesty happening in Rwanda, but instead of focusing attention on the 800,000 human beings massacred in the 1994 genocide, and those who continue to be killed, she and other celebs concentrated on gorillas.
Portman joined other international celebrities at a ceremony to provide names for 23 baby mountain gorillas living in Rwanda.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature there are only 720 mountain gorillas surviving in the wild, in parks that straddle Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo.
Don’t get me wrong I want to protect mountain gorillas from threats.
But let’s protect the humans first.
Portman works for FINCA which assists humans. She’s also a life-long vegatarian so she works with organizations to help animals.
For those of us who care about wildlife,
there is nothing more important than saving
the remaining mountain gorillas. They are on the
brink of extinction. There is no time to waste.