A new park, Ntokou-Pikounda National Park, that has an area of 4,572 square kilometers in the Republic of Congo and is estimated to hold 15,000 gorillas, 800 elephants, and 950 chimpanzees. Thats nearly 10% of of the population of western lowland gorillas (125,000). Western lowland gorillas are one of four recognized gorilla sub-species, which also include mountain gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas, and Cross River gorillas. All are classified as “critically endangered” by the IUCN, except eastern lowland gorillas, which are endangered.
The link below will direct you to a donation site by Wildlife Conservation Society to aid in equipment aquisition and employee park rangers.
https://secure3.convio.net/wcs/site/Donation2?5780.donation=form1&df_id=5780
Brief overview of this subspecies, Gorilla gorilla gorilla
http://worldwildlife.org/species/western-lowland-gorilla
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