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Rare Congo gorillas surviving war

October 02, 2005

Kinshasa - Thousands more rare lowland gorillas than previously thought may have survived years of war and poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a US conservation group said on Thursday.

"We found two important populations of Grauer's gorilla that were severely underestimated, neglected or thought not to exist," Patrick Mehlman, vice president of Atlanta-based DFGFI's Africa programmes, told Reuters on Thursday.

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