The Cross River gorilla is a critically endangered subspecies of the western gorilla. It was named a new species in 1904 by Paul Matschie, a mammalian taxonomist working at the Humboldt University Zoological Museum in Berlin, but its populations were not systematically surveyed until 1987.
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Their world
Mountain gorillas rose above 1,000 - community tourism funded the recovery.
Least ConcernCritically EndangeredExtinct
Red List status of gorillas as a group
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