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Nigeria: Cooperation, education and enforcement key to Cross River gorilla survival

Efforts to save the Cross River gorilla, Africa's most endangered ape, received renewed hope after the United Nations (UN) recently approved $4 million to help Nigeria further promote conservation and ...

Conservation | Wednesday, 9 November 2011

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League City girl raises $700 for threatened gorillas

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A gorilla species that's been called Africa's most-endangered primate has found an advocate in a League City girl. Berit Doolittle, 11, learned about the Cross River Gorilla from her mother Daniette ...

Conservation | Sunday, 12 June 2011

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Climate change aided decline of endangered Cross River gorilla

A now critically endangered group of gorillas had split off into its own subspecies about 17,800 years ago, say researchers, who concluded that the evolution of the animal, the Cross ...

Conservation | Saturday, 2 April 2011

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Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection

A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only ...

Conservation | Tuesday, 2 November 2010

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Princess presents top conservation accolade to Cameroon's Louis Nkembi

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LONDON - HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) tonight presented one of the world's top prizes for grassroots nature conservation - a Whitley Award - to Louis Nkembi of Cameroon, ...

Awareness raising | Wednesday, 12 May 2010

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Hunt for rarest gorillas in Africa

The Cross River Gorillas, the rarest gorillas in the world, live along the border of Nigeria and Cameroon. CNN travels into the remote jungle to try to get a glimpse of ...

Conservation | Tuesday, 23 March 2010

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Ian Redmond and Princess Odette Autograph Gorilla Paintings in Support of Great Ape Conservation

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During the recent International Year of the Gorilla Symposium, Ian Redmond - Ambassador for the UN Year of the Gorilla - and Princess Odette Maniema Krempin - UNESCO Goodwill ...

Artwork | Friday, 26 June 2009

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Conservation Groups Launch Campaign to Save Last Cross River Gorillas

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Following the declaration of 2009 as the Year of the Gorilla, the African Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) are launching a special campaign aimed ...

Conservation | Friday, 27 March 2009

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Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla

The government of Cameroon has created a national park to help protect the world's most endangered great ape: the Cross River gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a group ...

Conservation | Friday, 5 December 2008

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Continent-Wide UN Action Plan Seeks to Save the Gorilla

Low-volume wood-burning stoves to protect forest habitat, alternative livelihoods to replace bush meat hunting with beekeeping and the promotion of ecotourism are among steps planned under the United Nations Year ...

Conservation | Wednesday, 3 December 2008

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Cross River Gorilla

Rarest of All Apes

The Cross River Gorilla, with fewer than 300 individuals estimated to exist in the wild, and just a single identified member in captivity, is the most endangered of the gorilla subspecies, and is listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered.

This is the highest ranking for species that remain in the wild, and means that the population has decreased, or will decrease, by 80% within three generations. The continued fragmentation of Cross River Gorilla habitat across a large, complex area, together with the threat from hunting and the small number of gorillas remaining, has led to its critically endangered status.

The Cross River Gorilla is one of the 25 most endangered primates worldwide, according to the IUCN.

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