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Mountain gorillas pictured in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park in Uganda. A new survey shows the rise of mountain gorillas from about 400 to almost 604 mountain gorillas living in the Virunga massif. The other half of the remaining mountain gorillas can be found in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park in Uganda bringing the number to 1000 plus.
During the survey, about 400 snares were discovered and some containing dead mountain gorillas, poaching is still a threat to the number of mountain gorillas. Poachers kill mountain gorillas for pet trade, for private animal centers, monetary terms, for meat and others like traditional healers believe that some parts of gorillas are magical.
The other threat leading to the decrease of mountain gorillas is the transmission of diseases, mountain gorillas are vulnerable to human diseases this mostly happens during trekking or gorillas can transmit in any other ways of getting close to infected humans. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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