By the UN Environment
Did you know that population numbers of mountain gorillas have doubled in the last 30 years thanks to the effective protection of their habitats by rangers?
“There are many angles from which we can look at the important work of rangers and eco-guards,” says Johannes Refisch, the UN Environment Programme’s coordinator of the Great Apes Survival Partnership. “Mountain gorillas are a fantastic example: not a single mountain gorilla was killed in the last 10 years.”
In November 2018, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature declared the mountain gorilla no longer “critically endangered”. It has been reclassified as “endangered” due to conservation efforts. Read more>>
