What would be the effects on humans if there are no more gorillas?
Gorillas are one of our closest and largest living relatives: We share over 98% of DNA with these gentle giants. These magnificent animals are the worlds’ largest primates. A silverback eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) can reach up to 250kg (39st 5lb) in weight, from a diet that is almost exclusively vegetarian. They are important to indigenous communities: Many local indigenous tribes and communities living alongside the gorilla habitat consider the gorillas to be their patron gods. The Kisimba clan (Bahumba) believe they descended from the gorillas. Their traditional tale tells a story of a gorilla rescuing a man that was lost and stuck high up in a tree. To save the man, a gorilla climbed up the tree and gently placed him on his silverback before carrying him back to safety. If we keep losing gorillas it would upset and our natural balance in nature as the forest will start to become overgrown as their contribution to the vegetation is what keeps the rainforests to keep rebuilding as if they were not equal the fee that is of surrounding the rainforest there would be a sense of overgrown this and the rainforest wiper, unattainable however that I know there is other animals that live there but as they are such dominating creatures and do take over a large part of it the impact would cause the indigenous people left with more difficulty in terms of trying to control the greenery around them.
Why are Gorillas important?
-help balance out our vegetation
-closest to our DNA
-important to community tributes (gods)
-predictors will have less food as they keep them fuller for longer in long term it could start to on us as animals start doing for us (ecosystem)
-people are killing and destroy habits for fuels uses such as coal
-Their predators are leopards, crocodiles and humans
-reason why they are becoming endangered Habitat Loss, Hunting, Oil and Gas Exploration, War and Instability, Disease and Humans.
-deforestation (distraction of their lang ) land, trees, humans leaving there to die.
Poaching – for skin and fur
-if we don’t stop this will happen……The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.
-Without these large-scale grazers eating lots of vegetation, the natural balance in the food chain would be disrupted. This could negatively affect other wildlife in the area, and ultimately the people who depend on that environment for food, water and other resources.