A gorilla that’s so rare conservationists feared it was extinct has been caught on camera for the first time. Only 300 or so Cross River gorillas remain, confined to a mountainous area in the borderlands of Cameroon and Nigeria.
Numbers have diminished sharply in recent decades due to illegal deforestation, intensive farming and poaching, fuelled by conflict in Cameroon.
It has not left much hope for Africa’s most endangered great ape. But now comes good news from southern Nigeria, where a group of gorillas and their young were photographed.
Camera traps in the densely forested Mbe Mountains captured images of a group of Cross River gorillas, showing several infants and young clinging to their mothers’ backs. “We know very little about
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