| Name: |
Gorilla beringei beringei
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| Number Remaining: |
Fewer than 720 |
| Where they live: |
Bwindi National Park, Uganda and Virungas Massif, Uganda, Rwanda, DRC
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| Characteristics: |
The Mountain gorilla has a larger body and longer hair than the Eastern Lowland gorilla and is distinguished by its large skull, wide face, and angular nostrils. |
| Status: |
Critically Endangered (IUCN Red List C1 version 3.1)
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| Population |
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| Main Threats: |
Habitat encroachment |
Today, Mountain gorillas are threatened, not due to a demand for their meat, or their infants, but due to a demand for the lush forest in which they live. For the poverty-stricken communities living around the gorilla habitat it is the forest that provides them with many of their basic human needs, and in the war torn areas of DR Congo these needs are exaggerated.