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 of the Gorilla 2009, launched today, to save of one of humankind's closest but critically endangered relatives.
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Continent-Wide UN Action Plan Seeks to Save the Gorilla
- Wednesday, 03 December 2008 07:24
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New National Park Opens In Cameroon To Protect Endangered Cross River Gorilla
- Tuesday, 02 December 2008 10:55
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Takamanda National Park, Cameroon (AHN) - A new 261-square-mile park created to protect Africa's endangered Cross River gorilla has opened.
World premiere of a high-realist portrait of the Cross River gorilla
- Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:13
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Vancouver, BC, Canada – The first ever painting of a Cross River gorilla, Africa’s most endangered primate, will be unveiled to the public for the first time on 19 October 2008, at the Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre, in Langley, BC, Canada.
Nigeria, Cameroon Cooperate to Save Most Endangered Ape
- Friday, 05 September 2008 17:32
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New York - With just 300 individuals left in the wild, Cross River gorillas have found new conservation support from the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, the only two countries where these great apes live.ERuDeF: Eight Gorilla Skulls Discovered in Batibo
- Sunday, 06 July 2008 00:00
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A team of Environment and Rural Development Foundation, ERUDEF, conservationists recently discovered eight gorilla skulls in Batibo, Momo Division, Northwest Province.
