Mountain Gorillas

Gorillas are our nearest cousins sharing 98% DNA, in 2008 there was only 240 Mountain Gorillas known they exceed 1,000 strong in 2020.

 

The Mountain Gorrila (Gorilla beringei beringei) reside high in the forests between 2100m and 4100m in the Virunga Mountains, a range of extinct volcanoes that border areas of Rwanda, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

The Mountain Gorilla is still on the endangered animals list and caught in poachers' snares set for other animals, or caught for medicines and trophy parts even though in Rwanda and Uganda there are Park Rangers trying to protect these majestic animals.

Some More Mountain Gorilla Images

Captive Animals

Why show Captive Animals on the same page as animals on the same page as animals on there own habitate?  A contradiction or a statement?

 

Chester Zoo like most zoos have for a while have been invlolved with animal conservation, they have led breeeding programmes that have been successful in ensuring the release of endangered species back to the wild, or in other ways they have involved the communities in terrain where the animal and humans are in conflict, working out a strategy to reduce behavious that put both animals and humans at risk.

Private Collection

These images were taken in a private collections where the Resident was helping the large cat family after they had been at Zoo's and Circuses.   He also bred some of them for programmes for eventual release back into the wild.

One of the cats was from Chester Zoo retired from the programmes to live out his old age.

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