Name: 最後のシルバーバックマウンテンゴリラ (The Last Silverback Mountain Gorillas)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:51:13.000Z
Duration: 16 min 11 s
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And I am one of the guides in the Impenetrable Forest.

Now this here Bwindi Forest is the forest very special for

being a home to critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Yeah, we are going to start the gorilla tracking journey.

And which will take us possibly the whole day into

the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, an island within the

When you look at the map of Africa, you get Uganda, then

bordering Congo, DRC, that is the location of Bwindi.

We started in an open place, and you can see here where we

DR. RICHARD CARROLL: Mountain gorillas only exist on that

patch of habitat in the mountains of the Virungas.

And they only exist in those three countries, in just a

The zoo population of gorillas are western lowland gorillas,

Their whole survival rests in this patch of habitat that's

And there's only 720 of them that exist in the world.

LEVI: These mountain gorillas, they are the great apes.

The behaviors, the way they behave when you look at them,

They behave like people, like human beings.

DR. RICHARD CARROLL: The first time that you see a gorilla

through that veil of vegetation, and he's looking

at you, and you look at him, and you catch him in the eye,

and it's really clear that there's a species connection.

We share a good part of our genes, and you can see so much

of human behavior reflected or derived from behavior of some

LEVI: Mountain Gorillas are 99% vegetarians.

Most of the food they eat is leaves, bark

But 1% to make 100% of their food is the ants.

DR. RICHARD CARROLL: Opening up the forest with coffee

plantations and logging companies from Yugoslavia and

the French to Spanish to Dutch, when they came in to

get that very valuable hardwood out of the forest.

So the population demographics changed drastically.

So it's a very dense human population with agriculture

LEVI: Lifespan of these mountain gorillas is 50 years,

But when the people started settling around, then they

started clearing their habitat for farming.

Bwindi has about half of the world's population,

DR. RICHARD CARROLL: Bushmeat refers to the capture and

killing of wild game for commercial purposes.

They set snares on wildlife trails that are totally

It'll tighten around its hand or foot, and

So there's a lot of mutilation and mortality from these

snares that are ubiquitous around the forest.

And so the real threats right now are human population

In all three countries, there's been national

Uganda went through years of the most horrible dictatorship

under Idi Amin, where wildlife populations were decimated

DRC has been at war since 1993 and before.

LEVI: OK, this side where we are overlooking is Bwindi

And as you go to the slope, on this side is DRC.

And where you see across, you see the bananas, that's the

But if you go beyond, then you are in the DRC.

LEVI: When we get to the gorillas, we will have a sound

We imitate their vocalization so that they come down, they

know we are friendly, we have no problem to them.

And that's Sowendi That vocalization is [GROWLING ].

They live with families, headed by silverbacks.

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