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Once we test the DNA it will help to get the actual number and to avoid the repetition of over counting,\" explains Vastine Tindyebwa, a UWA ecological monitoring ranger. \u003cbr/\u003e              Tindyebwa and her colleague are lucky enough to spot a gorilla in the undergrowth, just a few feet from where they stand.\u003cbr/\u003e              This is the first phase of the census and teams like this will go out on routes across the park to collect dung and examine nests for hair samples. The data will be genetically analysed by laboratories in Europe.\u003cbr/\u003e               \"We carry research from where the gorilla sleeps because it is hard for the gorilla to count them per head,\" explains Tindyebwa. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Those animals, they are wild animals, we have got the wild habituated ones (gorillas accustomed to the presence of humans) all in the forest and our mission is to count all the gorillas in the forest, those habituated ones and non-habituated ones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Mountain gorillas are critically endangered - meaning they face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.\u003cbr/\u003e              The region's mountain gorilla population dropped sharply in the last century because of poaching, illness and human encroachment..\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Previously there was a lot of pressure on gorillas. They were being killed, others the habitat disturbance was quite high, like people were going to the forest collecting forest produce, hunting and so on, so those were having a very great impact on the gorillas,\" says Denis Mabassa, senior primate research scientist.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Now that we believe that they have gone down so we are seeing improvement in both the numbers and the distribution.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The last census in 2011 showed the East African country had 480 individuals in two protected areas, about half of the world's surviving population of mountain gorillas. \u003cbr/\u003e              The others can be found in neighbouring Rwanda and Congo, in the same ecological landscape of forested mountain areas where the animals thrive. \u003cbr/\u003e              Tebesigwa John Justice, a senior warden for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, hopes this census will bring good news.\u003cbr/\u003e               \"The fact that they are critically endangered, we need to regularly keep taking stock of them and knowing how many they are, and that gives us an opportunity to come up with practical action plans for improved conservation of these mountain gorillas. So it is actually an activity we conduct every five years,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The beauty is that for the last censuses that we have done, the numbers for mountain gorillas has been increasing. So it is also our hope that this time round, when we come back from the field and have the results, we hope that we shall find that the population of mountain gorillas having gone up.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The gorillas are now valued as an important part of the economy, so there is real incentive to support the species.\u003cbr/\u003e              Gorilla tracking has become the main tourism attraction in Uganda and they are protected by the park rangers.\u003cbr/\u003e              A permit for the activity costs a tourist up to 600 US dollars, and last year thousands paid for the opportunity to see the primates in their natural habitat. \u003cbr/\u003e              This census started in March and is expected to take three months to complete.\u003cbr/\u003e              Although their numbers are growing, mountain gorillas have been listed as critically endangered since 1996.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Bwindi, Uganda - 25 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of mountain gorillas \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) Census Team trekking through forest in search of gorilla nest\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Various of team getting out their equipment\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Tracking of team member approaching gorilla dung\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Tilt down from team member to dung\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Close of tube\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Team collecting dung sample for DNA analysis\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vastine Tindyebwa, UWA ecological monitoring ranger: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It helps us to know the accurate number of the gorillas. Once we test the DNA it will help to get the actual number and to avoid the repetition of over counting.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Mid of Tindyebwa and another team member\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of Tindyebwa looking at gorilla\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Vastine Tindyebwa, UWA ecological monitoring ranger: \u003cbr/\u003e               \"We carry research from where the gorilla sleeps because it is hard for the gorilla to count them per head. Those animals, they are wild animals, we have got the wild habituated ones (gorillas accustomed to the presence of humans) all in the forest and our mission is to count all the gorillas in the forest, those habituated ones and non-habituated ones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various of silverback gorilla\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Various of mountain gorillas \u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Mabassa, senior primate research scientist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Previously there was a lot of pressure on gorillas. They were being killed, others the habitat disturbance was quite high, like people were going to the forest collecting forest produce, hunting and so on, so those were having a very great impact on the gorillas. Now that we believe that they have gone down so we are seeing improvement in both the numbers and the distribution.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various of silverback gorilla\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of Tebesigwa John Justice, UWA senior warden for the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, talking to group of wardens\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tebesigwa John Justice, UWA senior warden for the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park:\u003cbr/\u003e               \"The fact that they are critically endangered, we need to regularly keep taking stock of them and knowing how many they are, and that gives us an opportunity to come up with practical action plans for improved conservation of these mountain gorillas. So it is actually an activity we conduct every five years. The beauty is that for the last censuses that we have done, the numbers for mountain gorillas has been increasing. So it is also our hope that this time round, when we come back from the field and have the results, we hope that we shall find that the population of mountain gorillas having gone up.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Various of census team returning \u003cbr/\u003e              20. Various of team uploading data they have collected\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Close of sample bags\u003cbr/\u003e              22. 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