Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

Impact on Gorilla Preservation When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was ...

Number of mountain gorillas in the world is growing - the incredible legacy of Dian Fossey who was murdered 40 years ago on Boxing Day 1985 ...

Katerina Guschanski receives funding from the Swedish Research Council FORMAS, The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, and the Carl Tryggers Foundation. A new census – carried out by the Greater ...

With close to a million species now threatened with extinction, it's not often you hear about a conservation success story. But the mountain gorillas of the East African nation of Rwanda are just that ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...

100 years after their discovery, numbers of the critically endangered mountain gorilla are slowly increasing. Nairobi, Kenya - Despite wars, poaching, disease, and dramatic shrinking of their mountain ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, conservationists are warning of the risk to another vulnerable species: Africa’s endangered mountain gorilla. Congo’s Virunga ...

A mountain gorilla whose picture went viral after she photobombed a park ranger's selfie has died at 14. Ndakazi "took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre ...

More than half of the world’s mountain gorillas live in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The sole luxury accommodation within the park gates is the ...