Unfortunately, the world continues to have more and more endangered species, one of them is the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), an animal with a DNA very similar to that of humans.
Gorillas are seriously threatened, so much so that the United Nations (UN) has decided to declare 2009 as the International Year of this primate. The most optimistic estimates point to a world population of 200,000 specimens, while the most pessimistic ones remain at only 6,000. Keep reading this AgroCorrn article if you want to know more about endangered gorillas .
Main threats of the western gorilla
The armed conflicts that have occurred in their natural habitat for years constitute their main threat. This is the case of Rwanda and Uganda, home to a third of the world’s last mountain gorillas.
Besides that, illegal hunting has also been behind the poor animals for years, for whose meat and skins large sums of money are paid. On the other hand, climate change and deforestation negatively affect the survival of gorillas.
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