By David Akana SALONGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of the Congo — For over two decades, Emmanuel de Merode has worked ...

In a new Netflix documentary, David Attenborough revisits the descendants of the gorilla family he first met in Rwanda almost ...

Twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict.

Virunga Critical Inc., a Delaware-based mining and critical minerals company focused on the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlights the critical minerals executive order signed by President Trump on ...

The population of the world’s last mountain gorillas has rebounded by 73% since 1989, allowing the subspecies to be ...

An estimated 1,050 to 1,063 mountain gorillas survive in the wild. Every birth matters — and twin births, which occur in less than 1% of all gorilla births, are nearly unheard of. That’s why two sets ...

On the southwestern flank of Virunga, a protected national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was once a thick rainforest. Today it looks like the surface of the moon, barren and smoking.

"She will be missed by all of us at Virunga but we are forever grateful for the richness Ndakasi brought to our lives during her time at Senkwekwe," the ape's caretaker, Andre Bauma, said in a ...

KINSHASA, Congo – Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is with heartfelt ...