This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

An outstanding student helper, he shared my aim to balance research with the goal of saving the imperiled mountain gorillas that I was studying from my base camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda ...

According to Visit Rwanda, the park is home to 12 mountain gorilla families. There are only 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild. That said, a unique vantage point affording unrivaled views ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...

We can classify Eastern gorillas into two subspecies, and those are; In contrast to other primates, mountain gorillas have thick, long hair and fur that keeps them warm in the chilly climate on ...

Venture into Virunga National Park with Smithsonian writer Paul Raffaele as he examines the threats facing mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...

I achieved the dream earlier this year when I traveled to Rwanda to visit mountain gorillas. Chris Johnston, of Steppes travel, an expert in gorilla trekking, shares his knowledge and passion in ...

Mountain gorillas have darker and thicker fur, and lowland gorillas are usually slimmer and have a greyish colour. Where do mountain gorillas and lowland gorillas live? They live in central ...

A total of 459 mountain gorillas were counted in Bwindi during the last census of 2018. Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinary officer, revealed that a new census will be ...

Mayor is a primatologist and explorer who has gone on expeditions to study apes and monkeys including mountain gorillas, western lowland gorillas, and the white-faced saki monkey. She is a ...

Nadia Niyonizeye is a young Rwandan gorilla researcher who climbs up steep mountains every day into the world of the mountain gorillas. This was Dian Fossey’s world too, and, inspired by her ...