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They were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and survived poaching, logging, and civil wars: the difficult history of the mountain gorilla

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Currently, there are around 1,000 specimens left in the wild, distributed in two populations in Central Africa. Conservation efforts managed to reverse the species' decline, and in recent decades the population began to recover.

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They were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and survived poaching, logging, and civil wars: the difficult history of the mountain gorilla · GlobeAlert