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Ugandans Poachers have killed in the National Park of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to Rafiki , one of the last gorillas most famous mountain in Uganda, whose species is critically endangered and there are only a thousand copies, reported this Friday the authorities.

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) arrested four suspects in the same park in Bwindi (southwest of the country), which borders Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the only corner of the world where this species of gorilla lives.

One of them, arrested on June 4 and resident of the town of Murole, also had in his possession potamoquero meat (a kind of wild pig) and several hunting weapons.

This Ugandan would have confessed to killing the well-known primate in self-defense, after, according to his version, he tried to attack him and the other three suspects, who are in police custody awaiting trial.

Rafiki , which means friend in Swahili, was the silverback (dominant) male of the Nkuringo family , made up of 17 members, as well as being a highly acclaimed figure among Ugandans and park visitors.

According to the autopsy, he died after a sharp object pierced his upper left abdomen to reach his organs, the UWA said in a statement.

Rafiki had been missing since June 1 and it was the park's tracker teams that found his body in the same nature reserve.

The Bwindi forest, inscribed on the World Heritage Site of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco), is the refuge of almost half of the remaining mountain gorillas on the planet, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The population of mountain gorillas, a critically endangered species that inhabits three parks in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, is estimated at 1,004 individuals, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

In just eight years, the population of this species - the "beringei beringei" - has increased in the Congolese Virunga park from 480 specimens in 2010 to 604 today (41 groups and 14 males); those that added to the gorillas of the Ugandan part amount to a total estimate of 1,004 copies.

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