Gorillas definition
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Gorillas have been observed, and in some areas hunted, since before written records began, but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that they were first described by science (▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇, 1847).
The most important threats facing Gorillas in CAR are poaching for the bushmeat trade, and diseases, in particular the threat from Ebola virus epidemics.
In 2008, the ICCN published a National Strategy for Community Conservation to facilitate the legal and institutional framework for innovative community reserves such as those in Walikale and ▇▇▇▇▇ which protect important populations of Eastern Lowland Gorillas.
The threats to the continued survival of Cross River Gorillas in Bechati-Fossimondi-Besali are similar to those in other localities; they include subsistence and commercial hunting, habitat fragmentation, forest clearance for farming, road development and general ignorance of wildlife laws.
A large proportion of the Western Lowland Gorillas are thought to live in Congo, mostly in the densely forested northern region, but also, to a lesser extent, in the central and southwestern parts of the country.
The remaining third of the Cameroon Western Lowland Gorillas is distributed between 7-8 PAs of different status.
Cross River Gorillas present particular challenges for habituation.
About one-third of the landscape across which the Cross River Gorillas are spread lies within Nigeria, and all of this area is within Cross River State.
Given the distribution of and threats faced by Cross River Gorillas, a landscape-scale plan for their conservation is essential.
Following these troubled times it is difficult to know how many Eastern Lowland Gorillas remain.