Where do gorillas live?

There are three types of gorillas. They live near each other in equatorial Africa.

• Mountain gorillas: Half of the mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Volcano mountain range, which is between Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda. Because it is in the mountains, the rain forest is cloudy and cold. The other half of the population lives in lower altitudes in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Uganda.
  
• Eastern lowland gorillas live in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  
• Western lowland gorillas are widely distributed throughout Central Africa. It is only the western lowland gorillas that you will see in zoos.

Both eastern and western lowland gorillas live in a tropical rain forest. It is warmer than the mountain rain forest.

Some people think that gorillas live in jungles, but there are no jungles in Africa.

Activity/Links:

On a blank map of Africa, color in the areas where the three types of gorillas live. Make each area a different color. Use an atlas to find the countries, forest, and mountain range mentioned.