Saving The Cross River Gorillas

With only 200 to 300 in their entire population, the Cross River gorilla* is rarely photographed in the wild.

A new park has been created and announced in the African country of Cameroon to try to protect a critically endangered subspecies of gorilla.

There are only thought to be about 300 Cross River gorillas left in the world and up to 115 of them are living in the Takamanda National Park.

Part of the problem they face is from hunters and people who cut down trees in the forests where they like to live.

Sreven Sanderson from the Wildlife Conservation Society said the creation of the park sent a powerful message to the world about conservation.

“The government of Cameroon is to be commended for taking this step in saving the Cross River gorilla for future generations,” he said.

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*The Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is a subspecies of the Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that can be found on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, in both tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. The Cross River Gorilla is the most endangered of the African apes, and is one of the world’s 25 most endangered primates according to the IUCN Primate Specialist Group.

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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