Juno & Venus 💚 🦍 Our ZSL Cameroon team led the biggest ever survey of western lowland gorillas in the Dja biosphere reserve, trekking for 3 months to successfully estimate over 2,000 gorillas living in the forests. Our work in the Dja is made possible through collaboration with partners including the government of Cameroon’s Ministry of Forests and Wildlife. | London Zoo

🌿 World Rainforest Day 🌿 Protecting forests means protecting our future At Danau Girang Field Centre, nestled beside a quiet oxbow lake in the lowland rainforest of the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, we see that future every day in the calls of hornbills overhead, elephant tracks by the riverbank and young researchers learning from the field. Through research, training and collaboration, we work to better understand and protect this incredible ecosystem. There is still much to be done

Starting today, June 5, western lowland gorilla fans will have an opportunity to vote on a name for a baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). Every western lowland gorilla birth is cause for celebration as this species is considered critically endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature. This morning, primate keepers threw a party for the gorilla troop,