Rare conservation win: Mountain gorilla population ticks up
November 15, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — There are more gorillas in the mist — a rare conservation success story, scientists say.
After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature updated mountain gorillas' status from "critically endangered" to "endangered," a more promising, if still precarious, designation. There are now just over 1,000 of the animals in the wild, up from an estimated population of 680 a decade ago.
"In the context of crashing populations of wildlife around the world, this is a remarkable conse...
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