This Elusive Gorilla Did Not Want Anyone Approaching Until They Noticed His Hands Don’t Look

The Road Ahead

While it may seem like there is little hope for the gorilla, given how many dangers it faces in the wild, we should not give up on them just yet.

The best advice you can enjoy is from Sir David Attenborough, who in 1978 arrived in Cameroon, saying that, “It is incredibly heartening to see how the efforts of so many different groups – communities, governments, NGOs – have paid off. The threats to mountain gorillas haven’t disappeared entirely, of course, so now the challenge must be to ensure that these achievements are sustained long into the future.”