Mountain Gorilla Lecture on September 10 at the Zoo

More info, tickets at www.houstonzoo.org/lectureseries/
There are approximately 740 Mountain Gorillas left on earth; they live only in two small parks, one in Uganda and one that includes a corner of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In order to ensure a healthy future for this special animal, the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project monitor the gorillas on a regular basis, provides life-saving medical care if needed, conduct health studies, and do all they can to build local capacity in veterinary medicine and ecosystem health.

Mountain gorillas are found only in Central Africa and only in two regions: 1) the Virunga Massif mountain range which includes the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda (Parc National des Volcans), the Virunga National Park in the DRC (Parc National de Virunga) and the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda; and, 2) the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Mountain
• Gorilla
• endangered
• species
• lecture
• Houston
• Zoo
• primate

[trafotevoli]

I thought this video was about a Mountain Gorilla giving a lecture. LOL

[soheiljerusalem]

One of man's closest relatives!