DRC: Congo’s Civil War Has Practically Wiped out the World’s Largest Gorilla

Apr 4, 2016 | Maddie Stone, Gizmodo
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The largest great apes on Earth have suffered a “catastrophic” population collapse over the past twenty years, according to a report published today by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Grauer’s gorilla, a subspecies found only in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is a victim of the same brutal civil war that claimed up to six million human lives from 1996 to 2003.