Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist

Mongabay
Oct 6, 2021, 5:42 am274 ptsTrending
As a clear morning dawned on May 18, 2021, a baby was born. She was a gorilla, born to the Mapuwa family, one of 10 gorilla families in Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A month later, news broke that another gorilla, Mafuko from the Bageni family, was born on June 6 in the…

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