1. How People Can Change
a Habitat for Worse,
and for Better
By
Alec Burns

2. The natural
habitat of
Mountain
Gorillas is
found in 3
African
countries.
1. Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
2. Uganda
3. Rwanda

3. They live in dense
rainforest.
They build beds
like hammocks
high in the
treetops for
safety from
predators like
leopards
and, worst of
all, people.

4. Threats to Mountain Gorilla Habitats
Over time, human
activity is leaving
less and less
habitat for
mountain gorillas.

5. Threats to Mountain Gorilla Habitats
Tree Cutting

6. Threats to Mountain Gorilla Habitats
Wild Fires

7. Threats to Mountain Gorilla Habitats
Poaching

8. Threats to Mountain Gorilla Habitats
Mining

9. These changes to the mountain gorilla's
habitat put it on the endangered species
list.
These are types of change that occur
naturally, or because of people.

10. 720
Today, there are only 720
mountain gorilla's left in
the wild.
They live in four national
parks located in the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Rwanda and
Uganda.

11. DO YOU
KNOW HOW
CELL PHONES
HURT
MOUNTAIN
GORILLAS?

12. Coltan
Coltan is a metal that is very
important for making the
circuit boards of cell phones
but it also can be used in
other electronics like
ipads, laptops , xboxes and
many more.
Circuit board

13. 80% of coltan is found in
Africa, mostly in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
The red
oval
shows
the area
where
coltan is
mined.
The green areas show
where the four
national parks are.

14. As you can see this is After…
what a coltan mine
does to the mountain
gorilla’s habitat.
There used to be so Dense
much vegetation but vegetatio
the coltan mine has n gone
left none.Before…
Dense
vegetati
on
Coltan is so
valuable, they are
having wars in the
Congo to own it and
make money. In this
particular type of
mine they put
children to work
instead of men.

15. Millions of
people died in
these wars. The
destruction
from the war
has left the
people starving
and that has
lead to the
trapping of
mountain
gorillas and
other wild on
The picture
animals for
the right shows
food. people
some
who just killed
a mountain
gorilla and will
soon eat or sell
the meat.

16. WHAT’S ONE WAY WE
CAN ALL HELP TO
STOP MOUNTAIN
GORILLAS FROM
BECOMING EXTINCT?

18. 100,000,000
Fact: 100 million
cell phones are
thrown away
every year, just
in America
alone.
If you recycle
your old cell
phone, you can
help save the
species of the
mountain
gorilla bit by
bit.

19. As you can see, we don’t recycle
cell phones as much as other
stuff.

20. Where Can We Recycle
Cell Phones?