A new census of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Massif will help gauge the impact of conservation work in the area and play a vital role in guiding future efforts to safeguard the critically ...

There had been scientific observations of wild mountain gorillas in the past ... challenges will include covering each of six of the Virunga Mountains from saddle to summit, exploring every ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

The good news is, their numbers have recently been rising. It’s not too late for us to protect our mighty mountain cousins. Mountain gorillas live in just two isolated groups – one in the Virunga ...

Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...

By Mongabay.com U.S President Donald Trump and his senior adviser, tech billionaire Elon Musk, recently imposed a 90-day ...

The IUCN Red List status update released today contains a small glimmer of hope for mountain gorillas found in just two places on earth. The great ape's status has now been changed from 'Critically ...

In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...

The gorillas and park rangers seem to have a strong bond (Photo: Courtesy) As depicted in the Academy Award-nominated documentary 'Virunga', the ... the world's last mountain gorillas - from ...

a young mountain gorilla, and her family, their future looked precarious. But the story turned out to be a source of hope Deep among forest-clad slopes of Rwanda’s Virunga mountains, a young ...

Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park has the advantage of easier treks due to less dense vegetation. The Virunga National Park in ...