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 ...

We still can't believe we walked with endangered mountain gorillas!!! It truly was the most terrifying experience of our ...

A mountain gorilla mother sits with her infant in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park in 2020. (Gorilla Doctors) A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation ...

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 ...

Endangered mountain gorillas increase the frequency they drink water as the temperature increases, suggesting a likely impact of climate change on their behavior, finds a new study published in ...

The 2025 Nature’s Best Photography Awards captured animals in their most comical moments. But beneath the humor lies ...

The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga Volcanoes area that straddles the borders of the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most extensive genetic analysis of mountain gorillas ever conducted has found the critically endangered apes burdened with severe inbreeding and at risk of extinction but ...

Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas that is very similar to the Epstein-Barr virus in humans, according to a study published ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has something extra special to celebrate this Mother's Day. One of the zoo's gorillas, 32-year-old Asha, is pregnant. The zoo said the critically ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...