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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

The comeback of the mountain gorilla podcast

Along the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC lies the Virunga national park the home of mountain gorillas. Back in 1970s there were only a few hundred of these gorillas left. Yet today the community is thriving with more than 1,000. Patrick Greenfield, the Guardian's biodiversity reporter, headed up into the Virunga mountains, guided by wildlife vets, to find out how they achieved this rare and extraordinary conservation success.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Mountain gorillas are back from the brink. But what happens if they run out of room?

Mountain gorilla populations in the Virunga mountains have rebounded from near-extinction to over 1,000 by 2018 due to decades of intense conservation efforts.
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