A recently published paper reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging ...

more than 175 park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to many of the world’s mountain gorillas, have been killed in the line of duty, with eight gunned ...

A ring of suspected moutain gorilla traffickers operating in Virunga National Park were busted by local wildlife officials as they tried to sell the body of a female mountain gorilla. The crime brings ...

Still, hunters continue to slaughter western lowland gorillas in the Congo basin. Martin Harvey The dense treetop canopy plunges day into night as we enter the rain forest. We are about 300 miles ...

Virunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and more than 1,000 hippos At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax ...

Mountain gorillas are on the edge of extinction. With just over 1,000 left in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congo, every birth is a major conservation victory. That number once dipped below 300 ...

For millennia, mountain gorillas roamed across the forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in the last 100 years, rampant deforestation, poaching, and conflicts have ...

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For millennia, mountain gorillas roamed across the forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in the last 100 years, rampant deforestation, poaching, and conflicts have left ...