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

KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — 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 ...

Just over a year ago, Andre Bauma and his adopted daughter Ndakasi huddled together as bombs, rockets and mortars rent the air. Bauma recalls holding Ndakasi and stroking her thick, dark hair. They ...

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops ...

August 2, 2023: In eastern Congo (South Kivu province) there are an estimated 10,000 local Batwa tribesmen and their families living in makeshift encampments on the edge of the KBNP (Kahuzi-Biega ...

San Antonio Zoo is expanding with a massive new 2-acre habitat called Congo Falls, which is set to open later this year.

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile ...

Gorilla experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society say they've made a spectacular find in isolated forests of the Republic of Congo: a large group of previously undiscovered western lowland ...

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The mountain gorillas looked me over with what I took to be boredom, but the rangers leading me knew better. When a male gorilla let out ...

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Park rangers returned to a reserve that is home to nearly a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas Friday, more than a year after fighting forced them to abandon the ...

A ring of suspected moutain gorilla traffickers operating in Virunga National Park were busted by local wildlife officials as they tried to sell the body of a female mountain gorilla. The crime brings ...