Another success story is the mountain gorilla in Central Africa.

So humans and chimps are a natural group, which are related to gorillas, cousins of gorillas.

The story is written from the viewpoint of a gorilla living in a glass cage in a shopping mall.

And the ones that stayed on in Africa evolved into the gorillas, the chimpanzees and us.

The main source of revenue, however, is tourism, mainly mountain gorilla visitation.

1972 The DNA composition of chimpanzees and gorillas is discovered to be 99 similar to that of humans.

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is a national park in the far south west of Uganda near the town of Kisoro.

Recent genetic research and field surveys suggest that these locations are linked by the occasional migration of individual gorillas.

In the 1980s, a census taken of the gorilla populations in equatorial Africa was thought to be 100,000.

(a) Providing RADARSAT 1 imagery for the ESA led project entitled Build Environment for Gorilla .

Some of the highest densities of African Forest Elephants and Western Lowland Gorillas in all of Africa are found in Lobéké.

The most popular, however, is the Prague gorilla family, whose restless offspring are loved by all who see them.

When Karl Ammann, a Swiss photographer and anti bushmeat campaigner, first visited the region in 1996, he was looking for gorillas, but instead discovered a skull that had dimensions like that of a chimpanzee, but with a prominent crest like that of a gorilla.

These gorillas were murdered, some would even say crucified, and unsurprisingly, they sparked international outrage.

Two new kinds of whales have been discovered, along with two new antelopes, dozens of monkey species and a new kind of elephant and even a distinct kind of gorilla.

Enjoy a perfect day out in the company of elephants, hippos, gorillas, giraffes, zebras, polar bears, red pandas and komodo dragons.

I suppose it was strategy sending gorillas to drag me from that justice of the peace.

From then on she spent most of her time in the park, and is widely credited with saving the gorillas from extinction by bringing their plight to the attention of the international community.

In 1964, the reserve was designated as an animal sanctuary in order to provide extra protection to its mountain gorillas and renamed the Impenetrable Central Forest Reserve.

George Schaller began his 20 month observation of the mountain gorillas in 1959, subsequently publishing two books The Mountain Gorilla and The Year of the Gorilla .

For example, these images taken by Brent Stirton in the Congo. These gorillas were murdered, some would even say crucified, and unsurprisingly, they sparked international outrage.

This project uses Earth observation resources to chart the mountain habitat of gorillas in various parks for African conservationists working in and around the parks

In 1925 Carl Akeley, a hunter from the American Museum of Natural History who wished to study the gorillas, convinced Albert I of Belgium to establish the Albert National Park to protect the animals of the Virunga mountains.

Their footprints, which range from 28 to 34 centimeters, are longer than the largest common chimp and gorilla footprints, which average 26 cm and 29 cm, respectively.

The project, known as Build Environment for Gorillas, is part of an initiative agreed between UNESCO and the Agency which is aimed at providing satellite images and know how in space supported conservation to developing countries.

It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID s), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions.