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Flickr group: pic of the day – baby mountain gorilla Mar 18 2008
This juvenile mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the world’s most endangered animals. The IUCN Red List puts the number of this subspecies at fewer than 325 animals.
This image was added to our Flickr group by member Max Waugh.
Tags: africa, ape, congo, democratic republic of congo, gorilla, mammal, mountain gorilla, rwanda, uganda, vertebrateWildlife news from around the world
Captured gorillas to return home tomorrow Nov 29 2007
A group of four western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) which made international headlines in 2002 when they were smuggled into the Taiping Zoo in Malaysia will return home to Cameroon tomorrow.
On discovery of the illegal shipment, the Malaysian government, through its Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) management authority, confiscated the animals and transferred them to the Pretoria Zoo, South Africa, where they have been housed for safekeeping since 2004.
Tags: africa, asia, cameroon, conservation, gorilla, limbe wildlife sanctuary, malaysia, pretoria zoo, south africa, taiping zooPage 1 of 1 pages
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