Protecting great apes from covid-19

The Economist TodayLATE IN 1990, after troops from the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) had crossed from Uganda into the Virunga mountains of their homeland, they were not the only formidable inhabitants of that densely forested volcanic range. The Virunga are also home to mountain gorillas. Soldiers are notoriously trigger-happy when it comes to wildlife, but Paul Kagame, the RPF’s leader, ordered his men not to shoot the apes. “They will be valuable one day,” he said.