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The document discusses a poem related to the Kwita Izina ceremony at Volcanoes National Park, celebrating mountain gorillas and their significance. It highlights the cultural aspects of the event, including the participation of locals and tourists, as well as the importance of protecting these endangered animals. The poem emphasizes gratitude towards nature and the role of gorillas in the ecosystem.

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Poetry

The document discusses a poem related to the Kwita Izina ceremony at Volcanoes National Park, celebrating mountain gorillas and their significance. It highlights the cultural aspects of the event, including the participation of locals and tourists, as well as the importance of protecting these endangered animals. The poem emphasizes gratitude towards nature and the role of gorillas in the ecosystem.

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Sto Kwita Izina
Park.
Volcanoes National
.Septernber, in
short, brown, blgck
tall,
Men and women, shirts, silk caftans
Ankara
hite. in black canes
their shoulders, zebra
rnped ovwer
conical-shaped stands,
hands walk into
atheir
cheering crowds.
wOving at the black
amazing apes, youths in
sike the the park.
fascinating gorillas of
mitate the
tower
brown ape and its baby
Ahurnongous with blessings to shower.
like gods
cbove the crowd apes renain in
the worid,
of these
Only about I000 untold.
died after suffering
Many having
than a source of tourisnm,
Mountain gorillas
are more
charmpioning the
cause.
guest, truly cherish.
Says chief c u s t o d i a n s of nature, which we relish.
Gorillas are challenge we
all
should be a nother nature.
then
Protecting gratitude to
offer future,
dance, singers shelter and a
With song and them
the day oftheir departure.
nourishment,

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earth
have.
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arrived
preserve all they
frorn the day value, protect
and
business - what they love:
prornise to the day's
on
iney
tourists
ernbark
for the
adorable infant gorillas.
Locals and cerernony

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the Kwita
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