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

Conservationist and veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has been on a decades-long mission to save critically endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda. As CNN reported, she fell in love with the ...

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

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the gorillas has helped support conservation efforts and transformed communities. Are ...

Where Do Mountain Gorillas Live? As their name suggests, mountain gorillas live at high elevations deep in the forests of mountain ranges. Their range extends in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National ...

Uganda is home to nearly half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas, and in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, ...

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

WASHINGTON — There are more gorillas in the mist — a rare conservation success story, scientists say. After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the ...

Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth – just like people. This may be to care for their young, according to ...

BWINDI, Uganda — Sept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by Dian ...

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas ...