Good Gorilla News

[snurri]

To counter the bad elephant news I mentioned earlier, the Wildlife Conservation Society reports that the world population of western lowland gorillas has just doubled:

NEW YORK (AUGUST 5, 2008) – The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.

The new census tallied more than 125,000 western gorillas in two adjacent areas in the northern part of the country, covering an area of 18,000 square miles (47,000 square kilometers). Previous estimates from the 1980s placed the entire population of western lowland gorillas, which occur in seven Central African nations, at fewer than 100,000. Since then, however, scientists had believed that this number had dwindled by at least half, due to hunting and disease.

Comments

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

This is horrible news. It just confirms my deepest, darkest fears that one day Gorilla City will be found. Now those apes will try and take over the world!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

How would that be worse than what we have now?

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you have not ever been hand-groomed in a socialist police state. ::shudders::

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[hefngafr.livejournal.com]

I wish the news were as good about mountain gorillas. There aren't even any of those in zoos, and poaching continues despite everybody's best efforts to contain it.