read this now quickly

[Banana-Girl]

Please look at my thread reagrding mountain gorillas, i am absolutely furious at sum weiros thoughts and would like comments from normal animal lovers, and before any of you astart read the full post

[LoftyLottie]

Banana-Girl. Put those replies out of your mind. Monkeyweiner comes on here in many guises and is just a total idiot who isn't worth a second thought. I am tired at present and just off to bed, but I know that lots of us on here would support you and would love to have experienced what you have. Will post again in the morning.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I will post again tomorrow.

[Banana-Girl]

Lofty Lottie thankyou, very much for your comments, I 2 have tried to sleep for at least half an hour but due to work and it being the end of the quarter in the job i do keep getting up and checking all of what I do for a living has been processed, please do answer this or other thread and thankyou for letting me read "A Normal" persons response before yet agin going to try to sleep, god bless you x Bec

[wolf63]

Although I understand the objections of people who are against such trips I am envious that you went too.

You are right in that tourism is a way for the people in these country to earn money and the animals are the reason that tourists go to these countries.

The AB is a good place for debate but some people are unpleasant and hurtful (and probably drunk) and there is no need for it.

I am off to strangle a cat - he is using my clothes horse for a climbing frame and my patience is limited at this time of night.

[slinkycat]

Hi there just read your previous thread - and wanted to say, take no notice of the negative answers, its obvious that you researched your trip and did it responsibly, "eco-tourism" as its called, can, I'm sure, benefit both the local economy and the environment if approached in a sensitive way, and you shouldn't be castigated for following your dream:-)

[bensmum]

Good morning banana-girl. Take no notice of the negative comments - everyone is entitled to an opinion but they could have expressed them better. There needs to be better awareness of the dangers these gorillas face. It's not an answer but perhaps if tourism adds to the economy then people will not hunt these magnificent animals or destroy their environment to the degree they do now. That's a naive view I know and I'm sure there are those who will disagree. I envy you your trip - it must have been totally awe-inspiring to see a silver back like that.

[echokilo]

I am very jealous of your trip ......... I am saving to go to the Galapagos myself, but no doubt when I eventually go I shall be berated on here for that too ......... well done on following your dream, I think it's fabulous. It seems you made the trip responsibly and you should ignore the small minded responses on your other thread ............. some people only comment on here to create a cufuffle and then they vanish. x

[Banana-Girl]

WOW, What a dfference in waking up to read this thread before bed than, waking up and reading the reponses from my previous thread, thankyou for your support guys. I will log on after work to thank you individually and read the comments properly,Have a good day

[smudge]

Good morning Banana-Girl - just read your previous thread & I'm really envious at the experiences you had on your trip.

Please ignore any negative posts from insignificant others on here. They just enjoy 'trying' to wind people up, probably 'cos they haven't anything interesting in their own lives to do.

Enjoy your memories & have a lovely day. -x-

[spudqueen]

Well I do think that the remarks were a little inflammatory, though I do see where they are coming from. As a normal animal lover myself I do not agree with keeping birds or hamsters as pets, and when I went to Florida (yes, I use aeroplanes aswell!) I didn't go to Sea Life, unlike my 'animal loving' friend as I think it cruel to keep such beautiful creatures as whales and dolphins to do tricks to amuse us humans.

[lankeela]

I think you will find that the person who replied is in fact Gravitate, known on here for replies that are meant to wind people up. And who I believe has recently been to the Far East ( by donkey I wonder?).

I think you are very lucky to have experienced this trip, and my wish is to see the big cats and other animals in the Masai Mara, and despite being an 'animal lover' (not my favourite phrase) I would love to see the migrating wildebeest trying to cross the river and get eaten by the crocs - not necessarily to see them being eaten but the whole spectacle of life and death in the raw.

[LoftyLottie]

Hello, I'm back! Glad you have the replies now that you deserve, and glad also that Lankeela has replied to you.

In order to find out what is really going on in the world it is necessary to get out there, and experience it for ourselves. We can sit back and donate to charity (which is good), but if we are able and can afford it then it is much better to go and see what these charities are doing.

I would love to do what you have done.

[Maggoty]

I'm off to the Galapagos islands next year. Soooo excited. However, yes we are flying (to Equador) and then sailing around the islands on a big fuel-using boat.

Those other comments are made by those wanting to get a reaction. I lump those people with those that when a question is asked about a soap character they reply "Its not real you know"

Twits.

[wonkon-wonk]

hey? who's been mounting gorillas?
monkeyweiner?

[Maggoty]

well if he's got a monkeyweiner, he's well equipped for it !

[fredpuli47]

The Galapagos are well worth the trip.The islands are strictly controlled ( I once got quizzed by a warden because I picked up a seashell, just to look at, and he feared I might keep it ! ) and the authorities only allow groups of no more than, I think, twelve to disembark at a time: the 'big' boats have to put people ashore in a series of small groups.

Ignore the comments, Banana-Girl.The others are right.We do get people removed from the site occasionally but they tend to reappear under some other pseudonym. I think you were very fortunate to go. We can't help but be jealous!

[Banana-Girl]

Hi Thank you to all of you, I really don't know what to say, except that and for all the backing you have given me. I like most of you believe in doing everything we can afford whether that be a donation or a visit with a purpose to any country including our own to supply wildlife and keep as many of our wonderful animals/mammals from extinction.

[Banana-Girl]

As I said in my other post it was a truly incredible and if I admit pretty scary encounter not just with the silverbacks, but the black backs too protecting a female and baby,and when we returned apart from the exhaustion of the trekking for both chimps and the gorillas and the early mornings, tent life etc etc, I feel truly blessed that I have helped in my own way to help pay the wages for even one ranger for a week which may be small but could just possibly save a Silverback and his families life, because when one is attacked they all stick together and to take a baby the Silverback is usually killed, with consequences the "idiot " described on my initial post, using hand and heads as trophies, also trying to sell the babies into zoos even though a Mountain Gorilla has never ever survived very long in a zoo only lowland gorillas and also politics, land I could bore you to death with more but wont. It was an experience to hear from the logistics team who travelled with us and were all from Uganda or Rwanda their real thoughts on the murdering of these beautiful creatures, but remember to them they arent magnificent but a hindrence to the overgrown poulation lack of land and to the locals that dont benefit from the money tourism brings who quite blatantly showed their distatse whilst we travelled the country roads in the Safari jeep, the children shout, "Mazungo", meaning white man, then in English say give me the money but the adults look in distaste. We left believing more money from these gorilla passes should be given to the community to help them work and not kept by the government of these countries,

[Banana-Girl]

anyone knowing the stry of the Genocide the Tutsis etc, the minority ruling the majority, will also believe it is only a matter of time, as the logistics team told us that the habituated gorillas would be taken hostage for the rights of democracy and freedom, little of this we understoood then or even now, but it opened a whole can of worms in my head as I believed the gorillas were just becoming extinct due to lack of farming land. and again thankyou to all of you loftylottie, Lankeela, whose opinion I said I respected and everyone else. Thankyou

Sorry for the hideously long reply just had so much to say x

[monkeywiener]

I dont feel good that you called me a pervert though? I think it just goes to show you dont really have a grip on reality.

[monkeywiener]

oh ps what is a wiero?