Bwindi Community Hospital now provides health care for about 40, 000 people.

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Following decades of illegal deforestation and poaching, the number of gorillas at Bwindi has steadied at around 340, and for the first time in years, it is very slowly on the rise.

BBC: Gorillas in the mix in Uganda

With a total of 380 in Virunga, and an estimated 320 in the delightfully named Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in Uganda the only other place that the subspecies is found mountain gorillas are not, as it were, out of the woods yet.

ECONOMIST: The number of mountain gorillas appears to be rising