Governments undertake conservation stabs in efforts to protect their wild in fear of certain animal species and other targeted living beings in the wild going extinct from hunting and conceivably the much infamous ‘poaching’ activity.
And in Nigeria while its government has in the years gone for protecting the wild as one their high level obligations, a rare species of Cross River gorillas snowball in the north western country’s Mbe Mountains, visibly relaying evidence of the remarkable effects to savour in enforcing wildlife protection to your wild ! A rare group of Cross River gorillas once feared to go extinct have been captured on camera after surprisingly being spotted on the Mbe Mountains with multiple babies on toe.
“We know very little about what is going on with reproduction with this subspecies, so to see many young animals is a positive sign.”
According to the AP report it was the first images of the subspecies to be taken having multiple babies in their troops which the publication further stated its “proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts.”
To the Wildlife Conservation Society which appears to have long taken the image on May it was of great surprise since before the rarely seen animals were faced for extinction.
“Only around 300 Cross River gorillas were known to be alive at one point in the isolated mountainous region in Nigeria and Cameroon”, and the publication states further more how one expert who had since been engaged with the protection program was glad of the consequential occurrence.
“John Oates, professor emeritus at the City University of New York and a primatologist who helped establish conservation efforts for the gorillas more than two decades ago, was excited about the new images”. It reads.
MONITORING
Since the species were found to be difficult to seen in their mountainous territories which covers both Nigeria and Cameroon a surveillance system of "about 50 cameras" was installed in the forests during the year of 2012.
As in line with a statement by the AP News Media Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary in Cameroon, Nigeria's Mbe Mountains community forest and the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary had multiple shots of the animals being taken there ever since the time the camera monitoring was put into practice.
On Facebook the Mbe Mountain Conservation Initiative posts as well about a monkey which also was one of the animals is feared to go for extinction as they are "slated for mining"