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Silverbacks and greenbacks: the catch-22 at the heart of gorilla conservation
The Conversation, Vol.3 September 2015
The Conversation Media Group
2015
Abstract
Back in 1979, an estimated 500 million television viewers watched a landmark moment in natural history documentaries, as David Attenborough sat with mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Attenborough said at the time:
"There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than with any other animal I know."
The gorillas that Attenborough met were habituated for research purposes, and since then many gorilla groups have been habituated purely for tourism. As a result, thousands of tourists have now visited Rwanda and Uganda’s wild mountain gorillas and, to a lesser extent, the lowland gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and Gabon.
Details
- Title
- Silverbacks and greenbacks: the catch-22 at the heart of gorilla conservation
- Authors/Creators
- D. Newsome (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Conversation, Vol.3 September 2015
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Identifiers
- 991005540507407891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.com/au
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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