The Gorilla Organization, a conservation charity, today announced the birth of twin mountain gorillas at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. It is the fifth occurrence of twins ever recorded for this species (Gorilla beringei beringei).
The park spans Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and is part of one of only two mountain gorilla habitats in the world.
Mountain gorillas are extremely rare due to hunting, war, disease and habitat loss. However, after decades of active conservation, the population to which the twins belong has risen from an all-time low in the 1970s to an estimated 480 today; both populations combined are thought to number 786. Now add two more to that count.
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