Since 2003, CNN Hero Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka and her nonprofit, Conservation Through Public Health, have worked to help ...

There are about a thousand mountain gorillas remaining on Earth, and about half live in the forests of the Virunga mountains ...

CNN Hero Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has devoted her life to protecting endangered mountain gorillas through her nonprofit, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mafuko, a 22-year-old mountain gorilla, was spotted holding twins, which the park says are both male. Virunga National Park With ...

Originally published in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic. Dian Fossey reports from the field on the death of ...

New research from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, just published in the journal Animal Conservation, analyzes more than 50 years of demographic data to examine factors influencing variability in the ...

In the impossibly abundant rainforests of central Africa, one of the world’s great travel experiences awaits. Mountain gorillas live in only three countries—Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

A woman from Cape Town, South Africa filmed the moment a mountain gorilla carrying her baby kicked a wildlife tracker during a gorilla trek in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. Daria Pershina said ...

For decades, mountain gorillas have been subjected to uncontrolled hunting, disease, habitat loss and the ravages of human conflict. Their numbers plummeted, and they are now considered endangered.

Survey results released today from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, and the contiguous Sarambwe Nature Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have confirmed that the mountain gorilla ...