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Good News for Africa's Gentle Giants
URL: http://archive.wcs.org/gorilladiscovery/

Description:
"The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has received a huge boost. A new, groundbreaking census released [in August 2008] by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo." On this site learn about the 2008 gorilla discovery and the WCS projects to protect all four gorilla subspecies. From the WCS.

LII Topics: Gorilla, Mammals

Publisher:
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Extra Keywords
grauer cross river mountain gorilla

LII Database Information:
Record 26668 created by Maria Brandt on 08/11/2008
Last modification on 11/01/2009
Published: 08/13/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26668

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