Rare Conservation Win: Mountain Gorilla Population Ticks Up

There are more gorillas in the mist — a rare conservation success story, scientists say.   After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature updated mountain gorillas' status from "critically endangered" to "endangered," a more promising, if still precarious, designation. There are now just over 1,000 of the animals in the wild, up from an estimated...

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