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"If we can do a good job at protecting elephants, our efforts will reverberate to other species, such as lions and mountain gorillas."

Uganda's first wildlife vet Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka works to save the country's endangered mountain gorillas, whose habitat is being eroded by climate change.

She met her first mountain gorilla, named Kacupira, while carrying out field work.

Ugandan officials said the army and the police were pursuing the militants who attacked the school toward the Virunga National Park, a thick forest that is home to endangered mountain gorillas.

Launched in 1967, the database contains daily, lifelong observations of more than 400 mountain gorillas monitored in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park.