This is an example of which factor that affects biodiversity? Although it is against the law, people hunt and capture mountain gorillas in Africa. They sell the baby gorillas for large sums of money.

Poaching is the illegal hunting or capture of wild animals. The people are illegally capturing mountain gorillas and selling the babies, so this is poaching, not habitat destruction, pollution, or the introduction of a nonnative species.

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