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Animals News tagged with mountain gorillas

MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
Animals  (tags: animals, mountain gorillas, AnimalWelfare, environment, conservation, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 187 days ago - gorillafund.org
There are two main types of gorilla, each containing several subspecies. The mountain gorilla is a type of eastern gorilla species (which also includes the Grauer's - or eastern lowland - gorilla) and is found in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic
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Bamboozled! Amazing Pictures of a 30 Stone Silverback Gorilla Who Has One Too Many - and Ends Up With a Sore Head
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, alcoholic sap from fresh bamboo shoots, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 248 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
When wildlife photographer Andy Rouse was told he would find a family of endangered gorillas high on the mountain, he did not expect to find them this high. Sitting back in the foliage as if it was a cocktail bar, the mountain gorillas had been gorging
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Diary: Protecting Mountain Gorillas
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 268 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In July 2007, armed men entered the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park and killed five critically endangered mountain gorillas at point-blank range, leaving the bodies where they fell.
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Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, tourism, animals, protection, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 271 days ago - awf.org
AWF is helping the communities of southern Uganda to leverage this influx of tourism through carefully designed community tourism ventures that empower the local people to protect the gorillas and their habitat. Working with local partners and the local
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Bwindi Has Fewer Mountain Gorillas Than Previously Estimated, New Research Shows
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, census, population, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 300 days ago - awf.org
A new report published in the February issue of the scientific journal Biological Conservation reveals that the mountain gorilla population in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National park is likely lower than previously reported.
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DNA Tests Suggest Mountain Gorilla Population 'Shrunk'
Animals  (tags: africa, wildlife, wild animals, big apes, mountain gorillas, population in peril, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 310 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
One of the most endangered species of gorillas could be in greater peril than previously thought.Experts could have to scale back their estimates of how many mountain gorillas are left in the wild after a new survey cut numbers in one of their main habita
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The African Conservation Foundation - Jane Goodall Named 2009 Year of The Gorilla Patron
Animals  (tags: Jane Goodall, YoG, Year of the Gorilla 2009, wildlife, mountain gorillas, AnimalWelfare, conservation, environment, ethics, extinction, habitat, society )

Julie
- 319 days ago - africanconservation.org
Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, will serve as the official patron of the 2009 Year of the Gorilla (YoG), a 12-month campaign aimed at improving conservation of humankind's closest relatives and their habitats by bettering...
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Virunga Mountain Gorillas Seen By Rangers for First Time in Over a Year
Animals  (tags: africa, virunga park, wildlife, wild animals, mountain gorillas, sighting, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 336 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
December 2008. Mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been seen by park rangers for the first time since the rangers were forced out of areas of Virunga National Park by Laurent Nkunda's rebel army 15 months ago. Virunga Na
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Uganda's New Family of Mountain Gorillas
Animals  (tags: africa, wildlife, wild animals, apes, mountain gorillas, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 417 days ago - dawn.com
KAMPALA: A new family of mountain gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, is ready for interaction with tourists, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said on Friday. "There is a new group of 13 members that has been habituated," UWA spoke
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Race Against Time to Save Congo's Apes | Environment | The Observer
Animals  (tags: Mountain Gorillas, Mountain Gorillas in Peril, AnimalWelfare, conservation, environment, extinction, ethics, endangered, habitat, protection, sadness, slaughter, society, suffering, wildlife, WAR )

Julie
- 449 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Race against time to save Congo's apes. A Belgian aristocrat leads park rangers in fight to protect gorillas from poachers and rebel militias. We're losing one of the world's greatest gems in terms of natural resources, in terms of human heritage...
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Gorilla Poaching -- National Geographic
Animals  (tags: Mountain Gorillas in Peril, Mountain Gorillas, Gorilla Poaching, illegal wildlife-trade, black-market, animal trafficking, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, extinction, endangered, ethics, conservation, habitat, slaughter, society, sadness, wildlife, sufferin )

Julie
- 507 days ago - video.nationalgeographic.com
Wild African gorillas are hunted down and slaughtered for their meat with devastating results. Caution! Some images in this video are of a disturbing nature. *PHOTO: Removing the snare trap from hand of mountain gorilla
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Inside the Gorilla Wars: Rangers on Risking It All
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, rangers, protection, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 527 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
For more than a decade, Diddy Mwanaki and Innocent Buranumwa have patrolled the often hostile terrain of Virunga National Park. Employed by Congo's national parks authority, ( ICCN ) they monitor six families of endangered mountain gorillas
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Mountain Gorillas: Species Threatened By Instability
Animals  (tags: mountain gorillas, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 556 days ago - newtimes.co.rw
For many years gorillas were classified as a single species within the genus Gorilla. However, recent genetic evidence suggests that this classification should be modified to distinguish two separate species: the western and eastern gorillas each
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Census Finds Mountain Gorillas Increasing : Virunga Volcanoes Gorilla Population Grows By 17 Percent Since 1989
Animals  (tags: census, gorilla population, mountain gorillas, study, populations )

Simone
- 567 days ago - wcs.org
A recent census of the Virunga Volcanoes mountain gorilla population has found that the great apes have increased their numbers by 17 percent, according to conservation authorities in Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Wildlife
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Seattle Man Will Walk to Help Save Mountain Gorillas
Animals  (tags: wildlife, mountain gorillas, activist )


- 578 days ago - king5.com
There are only some 700 mountain gorilla's left in the world. A Seattle man wants to help save them.
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