Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

Titus was just 4 years old when poachers killed his father and several other close adults in his group. Despite the violence, ...

Soon, Erin Marie Williams will trade the Virunga Mountains for mountains of data, and retreat to a motion analysis lab. And Rwanda's gorillas are well on their way to being "de-mistified" after 10 ...

Virunga is home to half of the world's fewer than 900 remaining mountain gorillas, as well as endangered elephants and antelope.

Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla whose image went viral when she photobombed her caretaker’s selfie, has died at the age of 14. She died on September 26 after a prolonged illness, according to a ...

The population of mountain gorillas has grown by 47 percent since 2007, from 720 to an estimated 1,063 gorillas in 2021. "I am proud to have called Ndakasi my friend.

Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Africa’s oldest national park. It is also Africa’s most dangerous. On October 25th, park ranger Jean Claude Kiza Vunabandi ...

Musanze serves as a jumping-off point for gorilla trekking in the Virunga Mountains, and it’s brimful with gorilla-themed tourist hotels and conservation organizations. Advertisement.

Mountain gorillas live only in the dense forests on and around the Virunga mountains in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph by Roger de la Harpe, Getty Images.

Mountain gorillas are an endangered subspecies of the eastern gorilla, which lives in high-altitude forests. Just over half live in the Virunga Mountains, which extend across the Democratic ...