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Good Gorilla News

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.

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[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee!
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