The Last Stand of the Gorilla

Logging in the Congo river basin forest

CAMEROON

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

REPUBLIC OF CONGO

GABON

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

0 100 200 Km

Logging concessions Primary forest cover

Gorilla habitat or Priority Area

Mountain Gorillas

Sources: Global Forest Watch, Bushmeat Interactive Map, accessed 23-02-2010; IUCN, 2009; CMS Gorilla Agreement, 2007, web published at http://www.naturalsciences.be/science/projects/gorilla, accessed in March 2010; WHRC, Scientists Using Remote Sensing Tools to Study Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa , 2007.

Cross River Gorillas

Grauer's Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorillas

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