1. The Effects Of Deforestation On
Mountain Gorillas
By: Jade Howgate

2. Overview
• What is deforestation?
• Trees and Statistics
• Mountain gorilla
• Effects of deforestation and habitat loss
• Threats to Mountain Gorillas

3. Deforestation And Forests
• Covering the earth
• Remaining forests
• Amazon rainforest
• Animal and plant species

4. Trees absorb pollutants like carbon
monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and
carbon dioxide.
Trees remove this air
pollution by lowering air
temperature through
respiration and by
retaining particles.

5. Approximately
14 000 trees are cut down every minute
214 000 every day
2.4 acres every second
3-6 000 000 000 per year.

6. Mountain Gorilla
• The Mountain Gorilla is mostly a herbivore.
Their diet consists of leaves, shoots and stems.
This makes up 85.8% of their diet.
Adult males can
eat up to 34kgs
of vegetation
per day and
females can eat
up to 18ks.

7. Mountain Gorillas
Mountain Gorillas are one of
the many animals effected
by deforestation.
The Mountain Gorilla
inhabits mostly the Virunga
Mountains and Virunga
National Park.
Mountain Gorillas were discovered in
the Virunga Mountains on the 17th of
October 1902 by a German explorer
named Robert Van Beringe.

8. • Habitat loss and its
effect on Mountain
Gorillas
• Clearing for
agricultural means
Deforestation in
and other reasons. the amazon

9. • Other issues
• Disease
• Civil unrest
• Poaching

10. Disease
• Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever
• Transmission

11. Civil unrest
 War in Rwanda in the early 1990’s.
 Because of this, Virunga National Park is listed in the World Heritage Danger List.

12. Poaching
• Why are they are killed?

13. Summary
In summary, my research project highlights
threats to Mountain Gorillas. The threats from
disease and poaching I believe have a direct link
back to deforestation. Deforestation for
logging, mining or agriculture has reduced
Gorilla habitat, plus it has bought humans into
gorilla territory, to transfer disease and to have
easier access for poaching.

14. Thanks for
watching 