IGCP has maintained a constant effort over the decades, innovating and adapting its approach to effectively support the conservation of mountain gorillas at the population and transboundary landscape levels, working to backstop and enhance the capacity of individuals and institutions across international borders. The International Gorilla Conservation Programme acts as steward to a legacy of collaborative and inclusive conservation, contributing to the protection of this place and the gorillas who depend on it. They have only this one home, a network of parks crossing the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and the DRC. One is found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, within three National Parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda and Virunga in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now endangered, mountain gorillas number barely a thousand. The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla. Occasionally they eat invertebrates also. They eat both bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots.
Among these bamboo is a key food and very important for number of reasons. With the growing population in communities. Mountain gorillas get 86 of food from the leaves, stems and buds of 142 species of plant. Habitat loss has people getting involved in the degradation and deforestation of the tropical rainforest for either human settlement, agricultural use or logging. Here in the mountainous forests of central Africa live the last remaining mountain gorillas. Below are some of the main threats to mountain gorillas Habitat Loss: Habit loss tops the list of the main threats to mountain gorillas.
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