Another Chance To See: MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

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In the late 1980s, Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and zoologist Mark Carwardine visited endangered animals around the world, hoping it would not be their "Last Chance To See". A BBC radio series and book followed, and for 2008 Stephen Fry is filming a TV series sequel, also with Mark Carwardine.
Compiled by Gareth Suddes

The Telegraph Travel website with yet another personal encounter with the Mountain Gorillas of Uganda.

Without Ishmail I would never have gone eyeball to eyeball with an enormous gorilla as he partook of a late lunch in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in south-west Uganda.

Ishmail was a 23-year-old Ugandan porter, one of the entourage engaged to help visitors trek through steep, difficult terrain and catch a glimpse of the gorillas in the tropical rainforest. And "my'' gorilla was a rare silverback mountain gorilla, one of the world's most endangered apes (there are around 700 in the wild), found only in the protected forests of north-east Rwanda, eastern Congo and south-west Uganda.

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