Mountain gorillas in dire straits, DNA reveals

What a headline. I would say it's obvious the mountain gorillas are in dire straits even w/o DNA tests. The DNA tests are helpful for showing the situation more accurately, but even the previous estimate of 716 mountain gorillas living in the wild is horribly low.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126924.500-mountain-gorillas-in-dire-straits-dna-reveals.html

21 January 2009 by Linda Geddes

MOUNTAIN gorillas are in more trouble than we thought. Fewer of them are living in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) than previous estimates suggest. This is one of only two places worldwide where the gorillas survive in the wild.
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According to this method, there are 336 gorillas left in the 331-square-kilometre national park. But when Guschanski's team analysed DNA samples from each pile of dung using a new genetic counting method, the population estimate dropped by 10 per cent to 302. This suggests that some individuals had been counted twice using the old technique (Biological Conservation, DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.024).
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The estimate of 380 for the mountain gorillas living in the other main reserve - Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo - may be more accurate, as the gorillas are more accustomed to human contact and can therefore be counted directly.