Eastern Gorilla Research Paper

The Eastern Gorilla faces many challenges due to the destruction of its habitat and poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore, of all of the great ape species- the Eastern Gorilla, Western Gorilla, Bornean Orangutan, Sumatran Orangutan, Chimpanzee, and Bonobo- only the Chimpanzee and Bonobo are not considered critically endangered; however, they are listed as endangered.

Conservation efforts have