Cameroon creates new park for gorillas

Today we send out congratulations to Cameroon for establishing a new Gorilla Park. Deng Deng park is the size of Chicago and is hometo 600 western lowland gorillas. Lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN after populations crashed by more than 90% in recent years.

What a great way to start tGorillhe Year of the Gorilla

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4 Comments

  1. Theresa
    Posted February 27, 2009 at 10:20 am | Permalink

    Wonderful news! Thank you for sharing.

  2. paula
    Posted February 27, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Theresa, anything that saves more gorillas is good news. …watch this space for year of the gorilla activities

  3. Pam
    Posted March 3, 2009 at 1:42 am | Permalink

    Hooray!

  4. steve Beard
    Posted April 1, 2009 at 1:36 am | Permalink

    This is the best news i’ve heard in ages,after seeing the gorillas in D.R.C. in 2006 & realising how difficult everything is for them anything that can be done to protect them is a bonus.

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