Tshiaberimu

“Married at last!” said some of the rangers at Mount Tshiaberimu who admired the Mount Tshiaberimu Research Assistant, Odilon Kataomba Kasereka, in his wedding suit in the parish of Christ the King of Tamende in Beni Territory, near where his work of protecting our close cousins the gorillas takes place.

Indeed, it’s at the age of 39 that the man who has always lived in the Tshiaberimu Forest, leading the strong team of trackers and rangers in the daily monitoring of the gorillas, has taken the fine decision to marry Adèle Vasuiri, who from now in is ‘Maman Odilon’! “The wedding ceremony with my better half Adèle brings me a new sense of responsibility and life within the conservation family” said Mr Odilon on being congratulated by the guests of the party. “I will team up with her to save what still remains at Mount Tshiaberimu, because from now on I am complete”, he concluded.

“The long-awaited wedding is unprecedented at Tshiaberimu and is a model for young conservationists”, added Jean Claude Kyungu, the Gorilla Organization project manager and ICCN conservator for the Tshiaberimu sub-station [and main blogger of this site].