Gorillas Are Almost Gone

[00:00:00]Status of worldwide gorillas are all are endangered. Eastern lowland gorillas found in Rwanda, Uganda, and DRC. 700 mountain gorillas and several thousand eastern lowland gorillas.

[00:00:14]>> Several thousand, did you say?

[00:00:15]>> Um 700 mountain and several thousand.

[00:00:18]>> Several thousand, that's good.

[00:00:20]>> Down from 17,000 in 1990s.

[00:00:23]Then there's western lowland gorillas found in Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, some other places. As many as 100,000 western lowland gorillas.

[00:00:35]>> Oh god.

[00:00:36]>> That's good. It says down 60% from past 20 to 25 years, but that is still good.

[00:00:41]>> 600 or 250 that they were down to at one point.

[00:00:45]>> Yeah. Cross River gorillas that live on the border of Cameroon and Nigeria, 200 to 300 total. These are the most endangered subspecies.

[00:00:55]Then mountain gorillas, um count as 1,000, up from 700 10 years ago. So that's good.