Shufai’s pain has finally ended.

For ten long years, Shufai has carried the painful legacy of his mother’s murder. He was still a baby clinging to this mother’s arms when hunters opened fire in Cameroon’s forests. Bullets killed his mother and left his arm peppered with gunshot. Too small to be killed for meat, the terrified gorilla was forced to walk to a village with a rope around his neck, where he was tied to a bed and tormented by children. After a week in agony, the injured youngster was rescued by the conservation group Ape Action Africa and taken to a sanctuary where, with love and patience, his emotional wounds began to heal. But despite emergency surgery, he indicated as each year passed that the pain in his arm was worsening. Now Shufai’s pain has finally ended.