Specie description and Identity
Two species of Gorillas are recorded in the global mammal list and live into the wild jungles of the African cradle lands. Though Gorillas are social mammal living in families of close bonds, however these two species are evenly distributed in different geographical locations into the African wildlife habitats.
The Eastern Mountain Gorillas which are sometimes reffered to as Beringei Beringei cohabits the impenetrable forest of the Eastern Mountainous forested zones of Africa.
Mountain Gorillas habitats are only in Uganda, Rwanda and Virunga forest in the northern kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo. The other Gorillas specie calling Africa home are the Western lowland Gorillas also known as Grauer’s Gorillas. This specie of Gorillas is identified as the largest of the four Gorillas sub-species currently recorded, you can easily identify the Low land Gorillas from other species due to their distinguishable physical characteristics of having a stocky body, they have ashort muzzle and large hands. Mountain Gorillas living inside the forest of Uganda are a subspecies of the Eastern Gorillas, this specie lives in the limited locations of East and central African natural forest.
Dian Fossey Moutain Gorillas conservation Legacy
The Mountain Gorillas name is a description of physicality and Geographical location, the Uganda’s Mountain Gorillas home is a natural forest at elevation point between 8,000 and 13,000 feet above the sea level. Thanks be to the Mountain Gorillas conservation mission as was highlighted by Dian Fossey in the 20th century. Dian was a prominent self-dedicated American primatologist who dedicated the whole of her entire life profession to save the Mountain Gorillas from 1967 till she met her death due to poaching of the 195. Today we can’t talk about Mountain Gorillas while leaving her legacy, she worked under tuff conditions of living life into the wildlife spheres of the Abertine rift and the Virunga massif in Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo to open the news about Mountain Gorillas on the Global publicity. Without doubt, it’s indeed believed that without her tremendous contributions and efforts rendered into the Mountain Gorillas conservation advocacy, the Mountain Gorillas would have been no more on the Planet Earth.
The present status of Mountain Gorillas.
Through following the procedures as were enacted through the Fossey Gorillas conservation legacy, the daily visits and interactions with Mountain Gorillas was implemented for effective research, monitoring and conservation thus the birth of Mountain Gorillas trekking. Today the world is celebrating this profound conservation legacy as was left behind to save the Mountain Gorillas and the recent conducted Mountain Gorillas survey revealed a great increment to Mountain Gorillas numbers in Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo. Thanks to efforts of conservation authorities, tourists and the community stakeholders whose efforts have yielded to the more than 1,000 Mountain Gorillas individuals currently surviving in the wild for the whole Planet Earth. Among this number of Mountain Gorillas, Uganda is privileged to host more than a half of the Mountain Gorillas population into the tropical rain forests of Bwindi and Mgahinga national parks.
Four practical pillars for Effective Mountain Gorillas conservation
Presently the Mountain Gorillas conservation mission is operated through an integrated holistic approach of activism and involvement of the locals living adjacent to forest boundaries. To take this mission further, four pillars were enacted and to day these results of an effective yielding conservation mission is achieved through a well-planned daily Mountain Gorillas protection, professionally and timely conducted scientific research, Training the next generation of conservation cadres and implementing best procedures for helping the local community around conservation areas through activism and livelihood support.
Mountain Gorillas Home-The natural habitat
Where do Mountain Gorillas live? Thanks to the adaptative home range principle that have enabled Mountain Gorillas failures to live in captivity compared to Low land Gorillas. As someone who have grown with Mountain Gorillas in my neighborhood, I won’t tolerate it seeing Mountain Gorillas live in zoos and having all the funny stuff out there. Presently the effect of human settlement patterns reduced the Mountain Gorillas home to live in east-central Africa in just two isolated groups. The first group of Mountain Gorillas live inside natural forests of Virunga massif in Volcanoes National park of Rwanda. Mountain Gorillas share a cross-border region spanning three forest reserves in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The other next group of several Mountain Gorillas families lives inside the verdant swathe of Bwindi impenetrable national park. Bwindi forests only is a natural home to more than half of the Global Mountain Gorillas population, these include both Habituated families for daily tourist visits and wild families only for Tracker Ranger monitoring.