Wild gorillas have become one of the planet’s most sought-after wildlife encounters, yet they’re found in surprisingly few ...

In mountain gorilla troops, females hold real sway, challenging bigger males and influencing the social pecking order. Whether it’s King Kong climbing the Empire State building or Donkey Kong throwing ...

These four images capture various starkly different realities within the animal kingdom — from family and play to survival ...

For once, there’s good news on the species conservation front. The world’s population of mountain gorillas has increased by more than 10 percent in just two years, most likely thanks to conservation ...

Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

There are only about 950 mountain gorillas left on Earth. Habitat loss, poaching and disease have made them one of the most endangered animals alive. But, as we first reported last fall, their numbers ...

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 ...

A park ranger wearing a mask walks past a mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. AP KAMPALA, Uganda — As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, conservationists ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

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 ...