Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said they were updating the status of mountain gorillas from “Critically Endangered” to “Endangered”. This was after the number of these animals in the wild was raised to more than 1,000. [...]
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of two subspecies of the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei). In 2008, due to activities such as poaching, their numbers were estimated to have dropped to just 680. [...]
This wasn’t the only positive animal news to come out of the IUCN Red List. They also noted that the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) had been upgraded from “Endangered” to “Vulnerable”, as its global population has doubled to 100,000 since the 1970s.
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