Tomorrow is my 5K Run for the Wild to support gorilla conservation efforts, so don’t forget to donate!
I’m sorry to say, but I am not cool enough to run in a gorilla costume, like these folks:
For my friends and readers across the pond, you may want to participate in London’s Great Gorilla Run and run 7km in a gorilla suit to raise money and awareness for the 700 mountain gorillas remaining in the wild.
Some Fast Gorilla Facts from Great Gorillas:
There are 4 types and they all live in West and Central Africa:
1. Mountain Gorillas
One of the most endangered animals on earth. There will be as many Great Gorilla Runners in London in September 2008, as there are Mountain Gorillas – just 720!
2. Eastern Lowland Gorillas
There are an estimated 3,000 of these slightly less hairy gorillas, which doesn’t mean they are any less important. I guess this seems like quite a few compared to the Mountain gorillas but when you realise that there were around 17,000 only ten years ago you can understand just how threatened they are.
3. Western Lowland Gorillas.
These gorillas were thought to be relatively safe because they live in huge dense forests, which are pretty hard to get to. But that was before people started building roads through the forests and a nasty ebola virus killed thousands of them in just a few months. 60% of these gorillas have been wiped out in less than 30 years.
4. Cross-River gorillas.
Rarely seen, even more rarely photographed, these are some of the most elusive and threatened creatures on the planet – there may be as few as 250 left in the world.
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Good luck! One of my favorite scientific names of all time is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
What type of RSS feed do you use here, because i can’t seem to get it working with my reader…
hopefully I’ll figure it out because I like this place!
It is a pretty great scientific name, and easy to remember. Although I think my favorite is Coccoloba uvifera.