under the umbrella of the african wildlife 'd foundation we've been heavily involved in the conservation efforts to protect mountain gorillas and when i started in the in the early 1980 s. populations were probably around 250 and now as you just stated the population is 'd in excess of a 1000 it's a dramatically successful conservation story all 'd of the great ape populations throughout the world 'd are declining melting the role of populations are increasing and i think it star regularly linked it to the conservation agenda of the country of rwanda and uganda and and democratic republic of congo they they've created the program with the help from conservation n.g.o.s like african wildlife foundation that is very holistic in nature it's directly 'd linked to the economies of local people it's directly 'd linked to the economies of national governments tourism in rwanda on in the annual basis is responsible 'd for 'd tens of millions 'd of dollars of income as a result of the code virus and basically the shut down of national borders that is stopped at this particular moment rightfully s

irreversible collapse in biodiversity or create short is the senior vice president at the african wildlife foundation and he explains why biodiversity is so crucial to our survival. biodiversity is important from a static standpoint needless to say but more importantly humankind is linked to diversity biodiversity throughout the world and we're reliant upon. and without it so our life is is is going to be shortened i think we have no doubt about that human kind is it's not going to continue to evil we're very very linked to 'd a reliance on natural ecosystems and environmental services and for that reason we need that said i think we've 'd got to be very very careful in terms of how we intervene on all natural ecosystems because we've got evidence in front of this given what's happening in the world today that that if in fact we intervene in the wrong way it's going to have a dramatically negative impact on on human where we're taking a look at the pendent me that's in front of the world at this particular point and and i think there's lots of scientific evidence at this point that indicates that tha