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With the positive transfer of three gorgeous young mountain Gorillas from the Port Lympne Wild animal Park in Kent, England to their new half way home, an African nature reserve in Gabon thanks to the brilliant efforts of the Gorilla charity the Aspinall Foundation .

Mountain Gorillas are approaching the possibility of annihilation with issues such as poaching, destruction of habitat, war, and sickness, conservationists are thrilled that the three gorillas are doing well gaining in size as they eat the now surrounding foliage.

The population of Western gorillas continues on being taken out in their natural habitat - gorillas are on the ‘critically endangered list’ and will no longer be found on the planet by 2020 if the quantity of them continue to reduce at the rate they are at the moment.

Their cousins situated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Rwanda and Uganda the mountain Gorillas are also suffering the effects of civilisations expansion and have seen their numbers falling hugely over the years reaching desperately small numbers recently.

Mountain Gorillas are dissimilar to their more robust cousins the Chimpanzees do not weather changes to their environment, with stress knocking them back in a fatal way. Stressed Gorillas tend to be depressed, leaving them very open to disease which they rarely get better from. Our sensitive large cousins need our help to ensure they do not just disappear into extinction through our lethargy.

The Young Gorillas from Kent are now sited in little housing within a safe area of the forest where they are taken about their protected area daily to help them develop in confidence and get used to providing for themselves (when I say enclosure I mean a large area of habitat that they become accustomed to). At some point the young Gorillas will break out of the enclosure and when they are completely ready released into the wild.

The main thing just as with humans, is developing the confidence within these Gorillas to ensure that they are completely and utterly at peace within the wilderness so that they know how to look after themselves without requiring the input of people to keep them safe. Only at that point are you truly able to say that these animals are able to become wild and this is the amazing work that the Aspinall Foundation carry out.

Wild orphan Gorillas that are rescued by the charity and its partners, are mixed in with the other Gorillas raising the quantity of Gorillas able to be brought up and finally released by this brilliant charity. There are many companies that are supporting the sanctuaries that wild Gorillas and Mountain Gorillas are situated providing tourists Gorilla trekking or mountain Gorilla tracking which let the visitor to be as wrapped up in the habitat as they want. This helps bring awareness of these fantastically gorgeous cousins of man’s struggle and help ensure that the parks have other types of funding.