Mountain Gorillas

Gorilla Habitats

Mountain gorillas (Scientific Classification: Gorilla gorilla berengei) live in the forests of the Virunga Volcanoes region, along the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire).

Conservation Status

Mountain Gorillas are on the list of critically endangered animal species, as there are only about 600 mountain gorillas left in the world.

View from Rwanda of Volcano Bisoke: the Mountain Gorillas Habitat. Click to see gorilla pictures on our tracking mountain gorillas page Volcano Bisoke:
Mountain Gorillas Habitat

About 300 of those gorillas live in Uganda's Bwindi National Park (also known as the Impenetrable Forest), which provides one of the last remaining sanctuaries for these usually gentle giants. (In comparison, there are about 20,000 western lowland and eastern lowland gorillas remaining -- the other two gorilla sub-species.)

Tracking Mountain Gorillas

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Scientific Classification and Latin Names

Here's the mountain gorilla's scientific classification and latin names:

Mountain Gorilla Photo

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Primates
Family	Hominidae
Genus	Gorilla
Species	G. beringei
Subspecies	G. b. berengei
Trinomial Name	Gorilla berengei berengei

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