An outstanding student helper, he shared my aim to balance research with the goal of saving the imperiled mountain gorillas that I was studying from my base camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda ...

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 ...

Currently, the estimated mountain gorilla population stands at 1,063 individuals across the two island populations in Bwindi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 volcanoes – spanning the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the ...

Rwanda’s Virunga volcanoes have become the go-to for once-in-a-lifetime encounters with mountain gorillas. And further south, ...

The previous mountain gorilla census of 2018 in Bwindi-Sarambwe gave an estimate of 459 individuals. Together with the Virunga census results of 2015, the total population of mountain gorillas was ...

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 ...

Mountain gorilla conservation comes into focus as Google honours pioneering primatologist Like Dian Fossey before her, Anna Behm Masozera lives in Rwanda where she works to protect the amazing ...

home to the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park. Kenya’s Maasai Mara to the east, with its famed mass annual wildebeest migration. To the south, Table Mountain, a flat-topped mountain ove ...