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The biggest threats to gorillas (Cincinnati Zoo not included)

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4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

Gorilla warfare

Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, was shot at Cincinnati Zoo after he started dragging away a boy aged four who had fallen into his enclosure. What are world’s biggest threat to gorillas?
— There are approximately 100,000 left in the wild, most of them western lowland gorillas who live in the Congo.

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