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More than 125,000 western lowland gorillas have been discovered deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, dramatically increasing the estimated population, primatologists said today. For centuries, the reclusive and endangered gorillas remained largely unrecorded, but a new census by the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, and the Republic of Congo counted the newly discovered populations in two areas of the northern part of the country covering 18,000 square miles. Previous estimates put the number of western lowland gorillas at less than 100,000.
But those measures dated to the 1980s and the gorilla's numbers were believed to have fallen by at least 50 percent since then, due to hunting and disease, researchers said. The 125,000 newly discovered gorillas put their estimated numbers at 175,000 to 225,000.
Who wants to go primate huntin'?!?
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Unfortunately, the Republic of Congo is starting to sell the rights to log there. That's the beginning of the end for the Apes. Once the loggers start, it creates in-roads into the habitat area, to which disease and hunting follow.
I hope that they change their minds and make the whole are a preserve - it's a very difficult place to access and navigate in, a perfect protection area for primates.
It's been proven that if man just leaves an area alone, it tends to go back to normal. A real life example (though completely unforeseen and unplanned) is the exclusion zone around Chernobyl - a recent survey of wildlife has shown that it's really coming back.
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