News Headline
A Grassroots Effort to Save Africa’s Most Endangered Ape
Source
Yale Environment 360
Publication Date
2015-05-21
The Cross River gorilla holds the lamentable distinction of being the world’s rarest ape. Inhabiting an arc of mountainous forest along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, this primate was thought by scientists to be extinct until it was rediscovered in the 1980s.