Today, while going through my photo gallery, i found this shot of a legend silverback, Ubumwe, which i took on one of my early gorilla photo trip in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. He was part of Amahoro group. This is a group habituated from March 1996 and was opened for tourism in 2000. On May 4th 2002, the dominant Silverback Amahoro died at about 31 years of age. After his death the two subordinate Silverbacks Ubumwe and Charles could not agree on who would step in Amahoro’s leadership. Therefore, the group split into two; the main Amahoro led by Ubumwe and another led by Charles. Charles’s group was later called Amahoro B then Umubano. Ubumwe died over four years ago. Currently Amohoro group led by dominant Silverback Gahinga. (Additional info source; My guide friends at VNP)