Endangered primates receive hope as mountain gorilla subspecies rebounds

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[Applause] on a mission through the clouds AK-47s in hand these are not gorilla poachers but gorilla guides yes yes gorillas have moved are looking for food they’re following them we’re going to use another entrance on the other side this tour guide is named patience appropriate for such a delicate

Job if you hear any doing as I’m going to do you have to pay attention if he does like this like coughing uh either you are nearby him he doesn’t want you to keep approaching him he wants you to move back all of a sudden further up the side of a dormant

Volcano there they are a mountain gorilla family the silver back his six females and their infants the mountain gorilla is classified as endangered but is the only type of gorilla not ically endangered its numbers across this small part of East Africa now around 1,000 up from 680 in 2008 thanks to

Anti- poaching patrols and the removal of snares when you you meet them uh they right they cose to humans there’s something that I don’t understand I don’t understand how people can come to kill this beautiful animals to humans genetically we the same so close they

Can catch a cold from us which can even be fatal our understanding of them is thanks to people like patients and conservationist Diane FY her 1985 murder thought to be linked to her work against poachers yeah it’s time for for having break for socializing they have like a

Like a biological clock by this time all they break for digesting what they eat in the morning and socializing the relative peace and stability in Rwanda is an important factor in helping them thrive in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo plagued by conflict their safety and future is less

Assured Redmond Channon Global News London

A recent report found that over a quarter of monitored animal species are facing a threat of extinction. This accounts for about 44,000 types of animals, including the critically endangered gorilla.

However, there is some hope for the subspecies of mountain gorillas, as their numbers are slowly rebounding.

Redmond Shannon brings us more on this story.

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