G is for Gorilla
Photo by Christoph Würbel on Flikr.
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There are 100,000 western lowland gorillas left in the wild – less than the population of Crawley, West Sussex.
There are 17,000 eastern lowland gorillas left in the world – the same population as Ripley, the fourth smallest city in the UK.
There are 880 mountain gorillas left in the world – the same population as a small comprehensive school.
There are 250-300 cross river gorillas left in the world – I don’t need to tell you how few that is.
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The wonderful photo at the top is © Christoph Würbel and is on Flikr.
Poem © Liz Brownlee
Information World Wildlife Fund, where you can adopt a gorilla.
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- Posted in: A-Z Challenge 2014 ♦ Animals ♦ Poems ♦ Sustainability
- Tagged: Africa, animal, animal facts, beauty, endangered, gorilla, gorilla in the mist, nature, poetry, science, sustainability, tiger
lizbrownlee - poet 
A beautiful animal. Thank you for reminding us.
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Thanks, Salty.
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This was lovely, the message and the prose:)
WriterlySam
Echoes of Olympus
A to Z #TeamDamyanti
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Thank you Sam!
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What a lovely poem, a nice way for me to start the day. Nice to connect and follow through a to z http://aimingforapublishingdeal.blogspot.co.uk/
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Beautiful poem — your language employs a kind of delicacy about these big strong gorillas that perfectly conveys their (paradoxically) fragile existence.
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Thank you, Author.
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I do love Gorillas, really moving Liz.
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Thank you, sweet Sue!
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The human race should treat apes with more respect, but we have been killing our nearest relatives for millennia and only some of us have a bad conscience about it.
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It seems amazing to me that someone could kill a gorilla, or indeed any ape, looking into their eyes…
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