Gorilla Habitats

Grauer's Gorilla

• Status: Cri5cally Endangered

• Popula5on: Less than 4,000

  Grauer’s gorilla, also known as the eastern lowland gorilla, is found the Democra5c Republic of Congo (DRC). Today, this subspecies is to the primary tropical forest of eastern DRC – most notably in Biega and Maiko Na5onal Parks, but a substan5al por5on of its falls outside these areas in the vast, yet legally unprotected forest separates them.

only in confined Kahuzi- habitat that

A 2016 report by Fauna & Flora Interna5onal (FFI), the Wildlife
Conserva5on Society and other partners documented an alarming
Grauer’s gorilla numbers, from an es5mated 17,000 in 1995 to just 3,800 individuals. A recent follow-up study has led to this es5mate being revised upwards to 6,800, but this is s5ll less than half the number recorded a quarter of a century earlier.

-Fauna&Flora

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Mountain Gorilla

• Status: Cri5cally Endangered

• Popula5on: less than 1,000

  As their name implies, mountain gorillas live in forests high in the mountains, at eleva5ons of 8,000 to 13,000 feet. They have thicker more of it, compared to other great apes. The fur helps them to
  in a habitat where temperatures oMen drop below freezing. But as have moved more and more into the gorillas’ territory, the gorillas been pushed farther up into the mountains for longer periods, them to endure dangerous and some5mes deadly condi5ons.

fur, and survive humans have forcing

drop in

What might have been a bleak outlook for the subspecies just a couple of decades ago has brightened in recent years due to conserva5on efforts. Despite ongoing civil conflict, poaching and an encroaching human popula5on, both popula5ons of mountain gorillas have increased in numbers. -WWF

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Western Lowland Gorilla

• Status: Cri5cally Endangered

• Popula5on: 316,000

  The western lowland gorilla is the most numerous and widespread gorilla subspecies. Popula5ons can be found in Cameroon, the African Republic, the Democra5c Republic of Congo and Equatorial as well as in large areas in Gabon and the Republic of Congo. The number of western lowland gorillas is not known because they some of the most dense and remote rainforests in Africa. Significant popula5ons s5ll exist, including in isolated swamps and the remote forests of the Republic of Congo

 

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Cross River Gorilla

• Status: Cri5cally Engangered

• Popula5on: less than 300

of all Central Guinea exact inhabit

swampy

The rarest species of great ape in the world, Cross River gorillas are similar in appearance to western lowland gorillas, but have a different shaped skull. They tend to have redder or greyer fur than eastern gorillas.

Cross River gorillas were thought to be ex5nct following the 1960s civil war in Nigeria. However, sigh5ngs were recorded during the 1980s, and small numbers of the sub-species were rediscovered in Cameroon and Nigeria on the banks of the Cross River.