Mountain gorillas are one of conservation's greatest success stories, with population growth from 620 in 2008 to over 1,000 today, but welfare threats from disease, snares, and habitat pressure remain significant.
Mountain gorilla conservation welfare reflects both extraordinary success and ongoing vigilance: the population has doubled through dedicated protection, but each individual faces disease risk from tourism proximity, snare injury risk from shared habitat with subsistence hunters, and long-term threats from habitat pressure at protected area boundaries. The welfare of individual gorillas depends on rigorous disease protocols for all human contacts, active snare removal programmes, and community development that reduces encroachment pressure. Every gorilla alive represents the fruit of sustained welfare-positive conservation effort.