When the Cross River gorilla population was rediscovered, the village of Kanyang adopted a voluntary hunting ban in 1987, in the hopes of drawing ecotourism to the region.

The southern boundary of the study area was the Cross River itself. The range (as of 2005) of the Cross River gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli on the Nigeria - Cameroon border (the shaded rectangle on ...

The rarest gorilla on Earth, the elusive Cross River gorilla, has been caught on film by a hidden camera trap for the first time ever. IE 11 is not supported.

Cross River Gorillas, members of one of the planet’s rarest endangered species, were recently caught on camera in Cameroon. Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images ...

Cross River Gorilla. This species, unknown to scientists until the early 20th century, ... The male Cross River gorillas can grow 5 ft 8 in (175 cm) tall and weigh 450 lbs (200 kg).

The research team looked at DNA from living gorillas and from 100-year-old museum specimens to figure out the gene flow between the Cross River and western lowland gorilla.

The Cross River Gorilla, known as Gorilla gorilla diehli, is a critically endangered subspecies of the western gorilla. It was named a new species in 1904 by Paul Matschie, a mammalian taxonomist ...

A now critically endangered group of gorillas had split off into its own subspecies about 17,800 years ago, say researchers, who concluded that the evolution of the animal, the Cross River gorilla ...

On World Gorilla Day, 2023, Wild Africa Fund urges the public to protect Nigeria’s unique Cross River gorillas by supporting ongoing efforts to safeguard their populations and habitat as well as ...

Nigeria’s only 100 Cross River gorillas face extinction. [a-z-animals] N; Wild Africa Fund, an environmental NGO, says that Cross River gorillas can boost local tourism if there are deliberate ...