Bamboo Growth Now Less Predictable, Harming Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas

There’s a population on the slopes of these volcanic peaks in central Africa that knows nothing of arguments in Washington about climate change.

But the famous “gorillas in the mist” do know something is going on.

They know the bamboo shoots that make up a major part of their diet, and which used to sprout like clockwork, are now less predictable.

The rains that produce them were a month late this year. The gorillas have had to adapt their roaming and foraging patterns because the old seasonal rhythms of food production have altered. Their world is changing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-diaries-drought-threatening-african-mountain-gorillas/

Gavin Langille

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