With the sad news that six rangers were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park on January 10, we are taking a look back at Getty Images Reportage photographer Brent Stirton’s coverage inside the park photographing the brave rangers last year. I October 14-19, 2020 I 📷: brentstirton I #GettyImagesNews #GettyReportage GettyReportage #virunganationalpark #animals #wildlife #conservation 1. Rangers from a new forward operating base patrol on and around the lake. Regular patrols and ongoing intelligence gathering are necessary to combat the constant incursions by illegal fisherman as well as Mai Mai militia groups on the lake, once the home of the largest hippo population in the world. 2. Andre Bauma, head caretaker of the orphan mountain gorillas inside the Senkwekwe Centre, the only orphanage for mountain gorillas in the world in Rumangabo, DR Congo. He is seen with Matabishi, an enormous blackback has grown up in the orphanage. 3. A quick reaction forc...