Why Mountain Gorillas

Gorillas are awesome animals, but some people do not see that. People take a quick look at them and notice their habitat and home, and decide tomoe it all down. We humans are killing off some of the last mountain gorillas that still live freely. Mountain Gorillas are an endangered species who live a peaceful life. But now, due to logging and hunting, their population is decreasing. Most of the mountain gorillas that are left, live in Rrowanda, a small country in Africa. There is a lot of work being done to try to protect these majestic creatures. These gorillas are soon going to be extinct, unless we stop and realize what we are doing to them. There are many reasons why mountain gorillas an endangered, but some are bigger than others. One
Large companies are buying land and destroying their homes for logging and mining. "When a company wins a logging or mining concession, it immediately builds roads wide enough for massive trucks where the principal access routs had been dirt paths no wider that a jaguar"(Begley 23). When roads are built, it allows more people to get to the gorillas habitat and put them in danger, weather that is to cut down the forest, kill them for bushmeat, or even littering in their homes. Over the past decades, logging has opened forests, and have made it so that the gorillas habitat's are now accessible to hunters (Begley 22). Logging and mining companies are the main reason for mountain gorillas endangerment. Not only for destroying their habitats but also for making access roads to their homes. Logging is when a company plows down a forest and sells the wood for profit. All they focused on, is the profit, not what they destroyed and ruined to get it. ".... three years ago some 6,000 Rwandans crossed the border into Virurga looking for pastoral land, and mowed down more than 3,000 acres of prime
These logging companies may be plowing down the forests, but they are trying to make sure that they are doing the least damage as possible. "...Congolaise Indestrielle Des Boise-which has a logging concession near Mouablé-Ndoki National Park-to ensure that employees and their families hunt only for their own food needs; the company also makes sure that bushmeat does not get stowed away on logging trucks as illegal hunters try to take their haul to the market"(Begley 23). By making sure the gorillas are not being killed for profit they are keeping away hunters. In Rwanda, visiting people pay around $500 to be with the gorillas for an hour, this helps their economy of the surrounding region (Begley 23). People in Africa are not very wealthy, so all the money the get helps their economy grow. This money can be used to fund a better program for the gorillas. There are many people who are trying help, by checking up on the gorillas or by trying to stop the logging trade. "One of the Rangers, Paulin Ngobobo, 43, has been intimately involved in trying to stop the charcoal trade from spreading across Virunga"(Johnson 28). Believe it or not, there are people out there who are trying to change how these animals are treated. Ngobobo is only one of 600 people standing there like to try to make a difference (Johnson 28-29). It is not just one person, many people are trying their best to