Cross River Gorilla

Cross river Gorilla is a species found in African regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. They are extremely rare. Their total population is less than 300. The Cross river Gorilla was thought to be extinct in the 1980s but some how they are holding on.They are usually hunted by hunters for bush meat and their habitat it being destroyed for the purpose of development. They may be extinct in short while.The critically endangered gorilla subspecies Gorilla is living in the Cross River area at the border of Nigeria and Cameroon.Gorillas: possibly 280 in a few isolated populations

Because it lives in such a remote location along the mountainous border of Cameroon and Nigeria it has never been well studied. It is separated from the nearest population of western lowland gorilla (the other subspecies of western gorilla) by at least 155 miles