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Getting Climate-Smart with the Mountain Gorilla in the Greater Virunga Landscape
This brief is one of three in a series that also includes the snow leopard and Royal Bengal tiger, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting the conservation of the mountain gorilla.
The brief examines how climate change has multiple, and often interacting, impacts on the mountain gorilla – be it on its physiology, on the ecosystems on which it depends, or on the behaviour of humans living in its surroundings – with important feedback loops that directly affect the conservation of this magnificent animal.
Status: Completed
Type: Brochures and Briefs
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Year of publication: 2020
Publisher: UNEP
Place of publication: Nairobi, Kenya
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