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The number of mountain gorillas in the wild has increased considerably. This is what the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced Wednesday.
The Union has updated the status of mountain gorillas from "critically endangered" to "threatened". In the 1980s, the mountain gorilla is expected to disappear by the year 2000.
The number of gorillas of this species is increasing because of sustained and well-funded international conservation efforts, says Anna Behm Masozera, director of a Rwandan foundation for the preservation of gorillas against AP .
According to Masozera, the boundaries of the national park are strictly enforced, hunting, logging and hard roads being illegal. Also helps the tourists of the national parks to pay the rangers.
About a thousand mountain gorillas live in the wild
At present, about a thousand animals live in the wild. Mountain gorillas live in forests along a series of dormant volcanoes in East Africa, in national parks located in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Although the population increase is promising, Masozera emphasizes the future number of mountain gorillas can still retreat quickly: "There are still fragile and small populations."
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