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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1992-08-30  |  2.8 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 14 seconds
Transcription: Well, there are three different kinds of gorilla. There's the mountain gorilla, the western lowland and the eastern lowland. The mountain gorilla is by far the rarest of the lot, only a population of about 350. And it's restricted in two areas, one in a forest in Uganda and the other in the Virunga volcanoes in a national park that actually straddles three different countries, Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda. They've been threatened by a number of different things over the years Rainforest destruction is one of the most important threats, obviously, as their habitat declines and the forests are chopp ...