Tebe, a western lowland gorilla, died aged 45 at her home at Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, Kent, after suffering an "acute cardiac event" earlier this week ...

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 ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Four mountain gorillas have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. With only some 700 individuals remaining in the wild, the gorilla deaths represent a huge loss to a ...

The Eastern gorillas can be found in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are deemed to be the largest apes on the planet. The contemporary name for the Eastern lowland g ...

and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During this time I have become well acquainted with many of the gorillas, and they with me. They roam the mountain slopes and saddles in groups ...

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 ...

spurring an altogether different cycle from the one that is still bedeviling eastern Congo. Meanwhile, slowly, the wildlife has begun to rebound. Since the massacre of seven mountain gorillas by ...

Park authorities have been assisting ranger families, but the conflict and economic instability leaves them vulnerable ...

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 ...