A new study shows that covered a lot more than we gorillas

It may be almost twice the gorillas in the world than previously thought, a new study shows. Published in the journal Science progresses, given the survey of ten who could be in the western equatorial 361.900 gorillas, higher than previous estimates of 150,000 to 250,000, reports the Guardian. However gorillas remain at risk of extinction, as their populations continue to decline. According to the Guardian, the population has dropped from 20% in the past eight years. About 80% of the Gorilla troops are believed to live in unprotected habitat, leaving them vulnerable, which the study describes as “guns, germs and trees [culled]”. “The population may be twice as high,” said Professor Fiona Maisel of the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of 50 international experts participated in the survey, reports the Guardian. “But it is not the big story. Just because it’s a lot ‘of them does not mean they are not very, very vulnerable.” Poaching, deforestation and epidemics such as Ebola threaten the gorilla survival, especially because they grow very slowly. It takes women 11 to 12 years to mature and give birth only every four years. “It takes a long time to build up populations,” said Maisel. The survey was conducted in a western equatorial area about the size of France, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, the Congo and Oubangui rivers performed. The population of a central subspecies of chimpanzee had to be 10-80% more than previously thought.
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