because the first census we did in 1996, we counted 320. and right now, we counted about a59 mountain gorillas. and since that was 2019 and since then, we have been recording some newborn babies, as you have seen today. it is a dramatic turnaround. there is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal i know. when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 1970s, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness. we see the world in the same way as they do. because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population. and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of the congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. so, how were the fortunes of the world s last mountain gorillas turned around and what can it tell us about conservation elsewhere? the first step was ensuring legal protections were in place. the bwind
there is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal i know when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 19705, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness. we see the world in the same way as they do. because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population. and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of the congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. so, how were the fortunes of the world s last mountain gorillas turned around and what can it tell us about conservation elsewhere? the first step was ensuring legal protections were in place. the bwindi impenetrable forest was made a national park in 1991. next, says the warden in charge, they needed to get the local people on side. the communities are critical in conserving the gorillas because, you know, these communities live next to the park
there is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal i know when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 19705, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness. we see the world in the same way as they do. because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population. and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of the congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. so, how were the fortunes of the world s last mountain gorillas turned around and what can it tell us about conservation elsewhere?