CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: Eastern Mountain Gorilla - Postcard

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: Eastern Mountain Gorilla - Postcard Lost in the Mist: The Fall of the Great Apes By Ashley Sullivan on September 13, 2016 Conservation, Primates As children, we were provided imagery of gorillas as being enormous, ancient beasts. King Kong reduced humankind to the size of helpless ants, while humans, consumed by a need to display power over nature and power over this “monster,” reduced Kong to a side show. In the story of Kong, people do not do enough to stop the misunderstanding and wrongful actions toward this giant ape in time. In the stories we write now for our future, will we be able to stop the fall of great apes? Last week, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the eastern gorilla as critically endangered in their Red List of threatened species. In 1995, there were close to 17,000 in the wild. Now, there are less than 5,000 eastern gorillas in the whole world. [IUCN] From Postcards to Save the Planet: A sad story being repeated all over the globe. Beautiful, magnificent, Created by God, animals falling to human attack and neglect. These gorillas are championed by Dr Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey but still the poachers and loggers and polluters seem more powerful than they, but this can not be. Please do what you can to help save this species and / other species endangered. To learn more about the Eastern Mountain Gorillas and explore ways to help save these magnificent creatures, contact the Jane Goodall Foundation at www.JaneGoodall.org. and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund at www.gorillafund.org/ From Dian Fossey: Our 50 years of successful conservation work in saving gorillas is based on a holistic model with four key parts: direct, daily protection of gorillas; scientific research on gorillas and their ecosystems; educating the next generation of scientists and conservationists in Africa; and helping local people with basic needs, so that communities can thrive and work together with us. The best way to save endangered species and conduct effective conservation is with direct, sustained protection in the wild. This is the foundation of our work and why mountain gorillas are the only wild ape whose population is growing. We operate the longest-running gorilla research site in the world, the Karisoke Research Center. Most of what is known about gorillas is based on studies conducted at Karisoke over the past 50 years. Our research also focuses on understanding many of the unique animals and plants that also call these forests home.