More gorillas than we thought.

They still face lots of pressure from Ebola, poaching, and habitat elimination, but here's a rare spot of good wildlife news from Africa.

Conservationists have found so many Lowland gorillas surviving in the northern part of the Republic of Congo that they have been able to double previous population estimates. A new census has found 125,000 western lowland gorillas in an 18,000-square-mile (47,000-square-kilometre) area, the Wildlife Conservation Society reported. Estimates from the 1980s had suggested that fewer than 100,000 of the great apes had survived and many experts believed that these numbers had been cut nearly in half by disease and hunting.

The newly discovered population boosts the estimated world population of lowland gorillas from 50,000-100,000 to 175,000 to 225,000.