A few areas have lost nearly all of their former wilderness, including the Northwestern Congolian Lowland Forests and the Northern New Guinea Lowland Rain and Freshwater Swamp Forests ecoregions.
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Western lowland gorillas are critically endangeredThough the western lowland gorilla is the most numerous and widespread of gorilla subspecies, according to the World Wildlife Foundation, they are classified as a critically endangered species.
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Gorilla World, home to nine western lowland gorillas, was closed.
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Looking more toward the western lowland gorillas than the silverbacks.
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Western lowland gorillas, like Koko, are a critically endangered species.
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Upland sheep are much smaller and scrawnier than their lowland cousins.
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But it'll be a loss to the gene pool of lowland gorillas.
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The facility lost one of their two western lowland gorillas on Friday.
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For Bobga the baby western lowland gorilla, life just keeps getting better.
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So mountains can provide temporary relief for lowland species as temperatures warm.
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Baraka and Calaya are western lowland gorillas, residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo.
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We are very excited to share that western lowland gorilla Calaya is pregnant!
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Harambe was one of just 765 western lowland gorillas living in zoos worldwide.
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Double her birth weight, the tiny Western lowland gorilla has also started teething.
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Lowland gorillas are an endangered species, and Harambe had been a zoo favorite.
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It is here in the Colchis (Kolkhida) Lowland that Georgian security is paramount.
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Many blacks still live in the lowland south, where their ancestors worked as slaves.
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Ficus lyrata, a species native to western Africa, where it grows in lowland rainforests.
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Update 10/14/2016: The gorilla has been identified as Kumbuka, a Western lowland silverback.
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Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered, and each gorilla birth helps extends the species' lifespan.
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In the wild, western lowland gorillas are critically endangered — largely due to poaching and disease.
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The IUCN recently put another iconic species, the eastern lowland gorilla, on its endangered list.
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He's from the Tai Lue tribe, part of the Lao Loum, or lowland, ethnic group.
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The Smithsonian's National Zoo resident is a western lowland gorilla, and a bold one at that.
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The western lowland gorilla is a critically endangered species, according to the World Wildlife Fund's webpage.
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Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, turned 212 at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden on Friday.
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Harambe, a teenage western lowland gorilla, then grabbed the child, but his intentions were not clear.
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Since the 113s, 80 percent of Eastern lowland gorillas in Central Africa have died of Ebola.
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Another system is expected from Saturday into Sunday, bringing with it lowland rain and mountain snow.
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The Philadelphia Zoo introduced animal lovers to the facility's new baby western lowland gorilla on Aug. 31.
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Harambe weighed about 450 pounds, which is slightly larger than typical estimates for male western lowland gorillas.
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In lowland Jammu some Muslim-majority areas joined Pakistan, and tens of thousands of Muslims fled there.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists western lowland gorillas as critically endangered in the wild.
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At 85033, Trudy was the oldest living Western Lowland gorilla living in a zoo in the world.
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The western lowland gorilla carried the boy around for 10 minutes before the animal response team fired.
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That house was separate from another enclosure for lowland gorillas, which were not hurt by the fire.
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Healthy zoo gorillas are especially important, since there are only 175,000 western lowland gorillas left in the wild.
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Hopefully what happened to Harambe will increase awareness of and fundraising efforts for the endangered African lowland gorilla.
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The winter storms have unleashed a bumper crop of highly flammable grasses in lowland foothills across the West.
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"To stop fires in the future, we need to avoid deforestation, particularly in lowland peatswamp forests," Smith said.
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Then the lowland Maya civilizations collapsed in an apocalypse of war and drought, and the fires went out.
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Western Lowland gorillas live in the smallest family structure of any gorilla group — normally four to eight animals.
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India saw it as unfair to lowland regions that lie along its border, and so again showed its muscle.
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Keepers served the sprouts, a popular side dish on festive tables in Britain, to the zoo's western lowland gorillas.
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The lakes sit in a lowland between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians, creating a vortex of dangerous weather.
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Zoo officials shot dead a 17-year-old critically endangered western lowland gorilla named Harambe after dragged the child.
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After four books in English (the last of which, The Lowland, was published in 2012), she moved to Rome.
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" Read more " The park covers more than 7,000 square miles of cloud forests, lowland jungle, streams, rivers and wetlands.
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They knew the Wallace's giant bee tended to be found in the lowland forest and tree-dwelling termite nests.
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The living cells of Kamilah, a female western lowland gorilla, age 40, are also preserved in the Frozen Zoo.
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Early American slaveholders were predominantly English, but they were also Highland Scots, Scots-Irish or Lowland or Ulster Scots.
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The lowland #rainforest of the Leuser Ecosystem are considered the world's best remaining habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran #elephant.
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A female Western lowland gorilla was born eleven days ago at England's Bristol Zoo Gardens after an emergency caesarean section.
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The zoo is focusing their care on Mokolo, 29, who is now the sole western lowland gorilla at the facility.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the western lowland gorilla as critically endangered due to disease and poaching.
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According to the Irish zoo, their western lowland gorilla Kafi became a mom for the first time on April 1.
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The western lowland gorilla is the most populous and widespread species of all gorillas, according to the World Wildlife Organization.
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This infant's arrival, the 53rd western lowland gorilla birth in the zoo's history, is seen as an important conservation win.
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He embraced grass-roots organizations and forged a so-called "Unity Pact," comprising leaders of Andean, lowland and Amazon tribes.
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Deforestation has resulted in major losses of the bee's native habitat in the lowland forests of the North Maluku islands.
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It is a jolting, three-hour drive to this region from the lowland town of Marigat, close to Lake Baringo.
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The zoo's website shows that its Great Ape House was home to orangutans, chimpanzees, lowland gorillas, rodents, marmosets and birds.
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Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered and the killing of Harambe triggered intense criticism of the zoo and the boy's parents.
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Unlike the lowland, where invasive species dominate the landscape, there's a forest of mostly native trees and plants all around us.
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The zoo had wanted to use Harambe to breedHarambe was one of ten western lowland silverback gorillas at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered in the wild and there are just 765 gorillas like Harambe living in zoos worldwide.
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Western lowland gorillas are classified as an endangered species, and Maynard said the zoo had hoped to use Harambe for breeding.
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CKDu has mainly affected coastal farmers, mostly men, working in extremely hot climates but also in lowland areas with increased humidity levels.
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Seven primates, including the Bornean Orangutan and the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, are currently listed as critically endangered by the World Wildlife Fund .
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In the tropical lowland rain forest — the jungle — you might get stuck in deep mud and perhaps need help to get out.
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Water drawn from the rivers and spread across their deltas allows the lowland farmers to raise two crops a year, sometimes three.
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Introducing the Phuket horned tree agamid, a lowland dwelling lizard native to Phuket Island and the Phuket mountain range in Southwest Thailand.
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The escape comes after another gorilla-related incident in May involving Harambe, a Western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Here, in the lowland Amazon rainforest near the foothills of the Andes mountains, the scientists collect ecological data about reptiles and amphibians.
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Except making these memories, of course, are macaques, mandrills, baboons, chimpanzees, gibbons, a young lowland gorilla, and even one ring-tailed lemur.
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The Association of Zoos and Aquariums estimates there are currently around 125,000 western lowland gorillas, with 550 of them living in zoos.
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In the lowland forests of the American southeast, loblolly pines and cypress trees are grabbing carbon dioxide from the air right now.
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Western lowland gorillas are classified as a critically endangered species, and Maynard said the zoo had hoped to use Harambe for breeding.
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The famous Western Lowland gorilla was controversially killed in May to protect a child who entered his pen at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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This baby western lowland gorilla has only been in the world for a few weeks, but she already has a lot of feelings.
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Orangutans live in lowland forests on Borneo, an island shared by Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as on Indonesia's island of Sumatra.
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"The lowland #rainforest of the Leuser Ecosystem are considered the world s best remaining habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran #elephant," wrote DiCaprio.
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The western lowland gorilla gave birth to an adorable baby boy on Mother's Day, May 12, at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
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Big gorillas start off itty-bitty, just check out the size comparison between this week-old western lowland gorilla newborn and its mom.
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Researchers are able to keep a close eye on the western lowland gorillas in this area thanks to years of conservation and monitoring.
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While wandering the glass-lined corridors in the extraordinary Congo Gorilla Forest, Jack snapped this portrait of one of the western lowland gorillas.
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Right now, the Fossey Fund is taking its model to Congo, where eastern lowland gorillas are being wiped out by hunting and poaching.
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Mizzurna Falls tells the story of Matthew, a kid in a small town who's trying to solve the disappearance of classmate Emma Lowland.
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The lowland gorillas at the Bronx Zoo tend to congregate indoors during the winter rather than roam around outside in their forest habitat.
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The 40-minute flight offers views of lowland rivers, lakes, and forests, as well as vast mountain peaks including Foraker, Hunter, and Denali.
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A social media movement expressing anger and mourning for the 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla spread and grew vicious toward the zoo.
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Climate change has pushed thousands of Bangladeshis to flee from the lowland rural areas to the urban slum, in the search for better opportunities.
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The animal, named Harambe, was a Western lowland gorilla, an endangered species, and the zoo said it had intended to use him for breeding.
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It is not only humans who are mourning the loss of Harambe, the fellow western lowland gorillas he lived with are grieving as well.
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Kalimantan's lowland forests are almost entirely gone, and as better roads make the highlands of the interior more accessible, forests there are vanishing too.
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The chain of events that led to the death of the Cincinnati Zoo's western lowland gorilla was, like many zoo accidents, an avoidable one.
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The pygmy species prefer to live elusive, solitary lives in lowland forests, mainly within Liberia in West Africa, with a handful in neighboring countries.
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In 1972, Patterson began her work with one-year-old Koko, a western lowland gorilla who now uses sign language and flashcards to communicate.
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Over the years, thousands of square miles have been cleared for plantations, a majority in lowland areas that are the prime habitat for orangutans.
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On the menu there are vegetables and foraged herbs from the Appalachian Mountains, rice and grains from lowland farms, and seafood from the coast.
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Venus' topography was completely altered by volcanic eruptions that most likely filled in lowland regions and potential ocean basins over the past billion years.
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Mountain farmers may get just 10 percent of the market price, compared with the 50 percent or more that lowland farmers receive, Romeo said.
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We have a highland, upland, and lowland, so as a country we can grow a lot of different produce—the only limit is creativity.
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Nearby Western-lowland gorillas woke up to and inspected a display of carved out pumpkins, including one depicting the face of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The Gorilla Foundation said the western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation&aposs preserve in California&aposs Santa Cruz Mountains on Tuesday.
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The western lowland gorilla died in her sleep earlier this week at the preserve where she lived in Woodside, California, the Gorilla Foundation announced Thursday.
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Venus' topography was also completely altered by volcanic eruptions that most likely filled in lowland regions and potential ocean basins over the past billion years.
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Zoo officials there shot dead a western lowland gorilla to save a 3-year-old boy who managed to slip into the animal's enclosure Saturday.
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A sweet photo of a little girl and Gus, a 5-month-old baby western lowland gorilla, is both warming and breaking hearts on Facebook.
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Indeed, one might argue that the animal people were seeing was not really a true western lowland gorilla, surely not an ambassador for his species.
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The researchers estimate that people who lived above 7,500 feet in the mountains were separated from the lowland populations between 9,200 and 8,200 years ago.
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The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country´s lowland jungles to the snow-capped peaks of the Andes.
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