meet the Gorilla tracking in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda n a world full of shocking stories about climate change and animal extinction the recovery in numbers of the mountain gorillas of East Africa is a promising story of the fight to reverse the plight of endangered species. The Virunga Mountains, a chain of volcanoes in East Africa that run along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda, are home of the critically endangered mountain gorilla, listed on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Endangered Species due to habitat loss, poaching, disease, and war. Many believed that by the turn of the millenium that they would be extinct, but extraordinary measures taken by organisations I 78
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