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August 5th, 2008
Posted: 08:40 AM ET
(CNN) — Researchers said Tuesday they have found 125,000 Western lowland gorillas living in a swamp in northern Republic of Congo, a rare positive discovery that adds significantly to the existing population of the threatened species. The last census of Western lowland gorillas, done in the 1980s, estimated 100,000 worldwide — and researchers thought the number had been cut in half since then. “It’s pretty astonishing,” said Hugo Rainey, one of the researchers who conducted the survey for the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society. Rainey spoke to CNN from the International Primatological Society Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he and the other WCS researchers planned to reveal their findings Tuesday. |
 
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