All the gorilla species are regarded as endangered animals by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to the fact that all species of gorillas are prone to declination as the natural environment they live in are difficult to monitor and also protect the gorillas thus making the conservation and preservation method hard to put in place.
Threats to Gorillas
In the wild gorilla do not have serious predators other than the leopards which occasionally attacks the helpless young ones but gorillas’ worst threat is man and his activities. In the past decade the drastic decline in the gorilla population has been greatly affected by disease, poaching and loss of habitats due to man’s activities like charcoal burning, settlement and also the civil wars that are carried out within the tropical rainforests in the central region.