Giant pandas, break out your best bamboo. You're no longer considered an endangered species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Sunday moved the black-eared, white-faced bears from "endangered" to "vulnerable" on its Red List of Threatened Species.
But eastern gorillas, the world's largest living primate, have little reason to celebrate.
The ape species is now listed as "critically endangered," the last step before an animal is considered extinct, the IUCN said during its World Conservation Congress in Hawaii.
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