Mountain Gorillas In Uganda

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One of the questions I asked was if the gorillas in Uganda were decreasing in population because of the humans? As I did research, I found that the mountain gorilla population in Uganda has been decreasing for over one hundred years. With further research, I found a different question. I wanted to research how the mountain gorilla population has changed since we discovered we’ve been hunting them almost to the point of extinction? To gather data, I started with the first recorded data of the mountain gorilla population in Uganda. In 1972, WWF published a report on the individual mountain gorillas that still existed, a total of 274. Though I didn’t gather a starting amount from over 100 years ago, I could infer that this number was not healthy

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