Spain: The Western lowland gorillas at Madrid Zoo by Jorge Sanz
Madrid Zoo participates in the European Endangered Species Program to protect to the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). It is the smallest subspecies of gorilla but nevertheless still a primate of exceptional size and strength. It is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The population of them in the wild is faced by a number of factors that threaten its extinction, due to deforestation, farming, grazing, and the expanding human settlements that cause forest loss.
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