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The number of mountain gorillas is increasing.

Their numbers went from 100 in the 1980s to 1,000 today.

But the gorillas require more land.

Their main habitat is the national parks of the Virunga Mountains.

These cover Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is now 54 percent smaller.

Prosper Uwingeli's in charge of the park.

Competition for space means gorilla groups are fighting more.

The fighting has killed adult males and baby gorillas.

Felix Ndagjimana's director of a gorilla fund in Rwanda.

Tourism has helped increase numbers, but it's changed gorilla behaviour.

Not afraid of humans, gorillas now enter villages in search of food.

They could catch human diseases.

So plans to increase the park include moving people out of some areas.

A fund receives 10 percent of tourism income to help farmers and local communities.

Environmentalists hope this income will end traditional fears of gorillas.

They want people to see gorillas as part of a positive community future.

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