Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

Born Free takes action in Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo to protect the Western and Eastern gorilla.  The IUCN^¹ Red List, which lists all rare species of animals, classes the Eastern Lowland gorilla as ‘endangered’.  This means the species ‘faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future’.

^¹International Union for Conservation of Nature

Population decline (Eastern Lowland gorilla)

1900 – 50,000 exist

1995 – 18,000

2007 – as few as 5,000?

IUCN Red List status

Eastern gorilla - Endangered

Western gorilla - Critically Endangered

CITES STATUS

Appendix I