Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

Born Free takes action in Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo to protect the Eastern Lowland 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

1900 – 50,000 exist

1995 – 18,000

2007 – just 3,000; IUCN status  ‘Endangered’

CITES STATUS:

Appendix I