GORILLAS IN THE MIST (Africa Travel Guides)

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The book you are holding was designed for three distinct audiences-three kinds of travelers who share a common gravitational pull toward the mountain forests of Central and East Africa.
The serious wildlife enthusiast-planning a gorilla trekking experience in Uganda, Rwanda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, and wanting to understand what they will encounter before they encounter it. Not the Instagram version. The real version.
The conscious traveler-who wants Africa not as a backdrop for personal adventure, but as a living, intelligent, contested landscape with its own rhythms, its own politics, and its own relationship to the animals that inhabit it.
The conservation supporter-seeking to understand how their tourism dollars translate, in precise terms, into protection for the world’s last mountain gorillas. The mechanics of that translation matter. This book explains them.
As of the most recent complete census, the global population of mountain gorillas-Gorilla beringei beringei-stands at approximately 1,063 individuals.
Let that number settle.
One thousand and sixty-three individuals. Fewer than the capacity of a mid-sized concert hall. The entire global wild population of a great ape species, contained within two non-contiguous forest patches in Central and East Africa. The Virunga Massif, straddling the borders of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda.
That is it. That is the whole range. The entire world for the only great ape whose population is currently growing.
This figure-remarkable in the context of conservation history-represents extraordinary growth from a low of approximately 620 individuals counted in the mid-1980s, at the nadir of the poaching crisis and civil conflict that Dian Fossey documented with her life. The mountain gorilla is a genuine conservation success. It is also an animal on the thinnest of margins.
Understanding that paradox is not optional for anyone who claims to care about this species. This book provides that understanding.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GX322R81
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 413 KB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 61 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #884,268 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #15 in Central Africa Travel #41 in East Africa Travel #160 in 90-Minute Travel Short Reads
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