The other almost half roam the montane jungle floors of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Some of the mountain gorilla population lives in the rainforests of the Virunga mountains in central Africa.
As their name hints, they live only in the mountains at elevations between 8,000 and 13,000 feet.Īccording to a recent publication (2018), a little more than 1,000 mountain gorillas remaining on Earth. Uganda’s mountain gorilla is a subspecies of the Eastern gorilla, found only in the east-central African rainforests. There are two species of gorilla recorded only in Africa: the Eastern and Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). Uganda has more than half of the world’s mountain gorilla population found on the Virunga Mountain slopes in Mgahinga National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
