Talk:Eastern gorilla

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"Most critically endangered"

The "Relation to humans" section previously contained this sentence: "The Eastern Gorilla is the most critically endangered of the two gorilla species."

But the Eastern Gorilla's Conservation status is listed in the taxobox as Endangered, whereas the Western Gorilla's is listed as Critically Endangered.

I've removed the offending sentence. If I'm wrong, please redact/restore. Thanks. Seduisant (talk) 19:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I think - though I can't access the IUCN site at the moment - that with the revised numbers (see section below) of 6,000, it is Critically Endangered. I'll restore the sentence and have changed the status to CR.--Annielogue (talk) 15:14, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

IUCN still lists as EN, not CR, so we shouldn't say they say CR. I'm changing it back. (We don't assess the status, we report what the assessed status is.) - UtherSRG (talk) 15:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Present numbers

In the lead it says: "The Eastern Lowland Gorilla (G. b. graueri) is the most populous, at about 16,000 individuals."

The ref for numbers in the lead, "Eastern Lowland Gorilla". World Wide Fund for Nature. Retrieved 2006-04-18. is a dead link now

Checking on the wwf site, the most relevant page I could find was http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/great_apes/gorillas/#population which doesn't give a figure for current Eastern Lowland Gorilla.

However a UNEP document "Gorillas on Thin Ice". United Nations Environment Programme. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010. (near the bottom) gives a figure of 5,000. "The Eastern Lowland Gorilla population in the DRC has plummeted dramatically over the last 10 years, with probably only about 5,000 of the formerly 17,000 animals remaining."

I'll change the figure and the ref.--Annielogue (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Recent photo additions

As these span a number of articles: please discuss recent photo additions by SpaceMusk at User_talk:SpaceMusk#Photo additions. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)