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

Analysis - Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on the planet is increasing fast, other great ...

When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was hurtling towards extinction. She was one of the Trimates, a trio of female primatologists that included Jane ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

The ugly five, if you may-warthog, hyena, marabou stork and vulture among them, form the wild’s backstage team, working ...

From former poachers now protecting endangered species to farmers adapting crops and traditions to help local wildlife, 2025 has been a brighter year for conservationists and the world's wildlife.

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 ...

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

From Africa to Asia, safari tourism lets travellers see wild animals in their natural homes. Here’s a quick look at 10 ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...