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On the Red List

COMPILED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN

Photo: Reuters

On decline : Western Lowland Gorilla.

The Western Lowland Gorilla is one of many new additions to the World Conservation Union (IUCN)’s 2007 Red List of Threatened Species, which was made public recently. Since 2006, the annual assessment of the planet’s imperilled wildlife has grown by more than a thousand species and now totals 41,415. Western Lowland Gorilla populations in central Africa have collapsed due to the commercial bush meat trade and the Ebola virus.

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