National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Mongabay
Mar 26, 2020, 11:20 am198 pts
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut its doors to tourists this week in an attempt to protect its great apes from possibly being infected by the novel coronavirus. The park, which hosts one of the last remaining populations of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), will…

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