It has periodically gone viral several times since then, including in an April 2021 Reddit thread titled "Anti-poacher takes selfie with gorillas they are protecting." The two gorillas were ...

A forest ranger has been killed and another seriously injured in a violent clash with gorilla poachers outside a national park in Cameroon, WWF has learned. The attack occurred on September 27 about ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers ...

The image was taken at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, DR Congo, where the animals were raised after poachers killed their parents. The park's deputy director told BBC Newsday that ...

The western lowland gorilla is a calm, non-aggressive species in danger of sickness and poaching. They knuckle-walk while crawling on all fours, bearing all their weight on their curled third and ...

The tangled vines hide the forest's many dangers: poachers, rebels, and herds of wild elephants. After a few hours, a path of trampled brush leads to a clearing where a group of mountain gorillas ...

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla to the edge of extinction. Digit's sad ...

Today, Fossey is buried next to her dead gorilla friends, many of which had been killed by the very poachers that likely ...

A pair of proud gorillas strutted their handsome stuff as anti-poaching officers snapped a quick photo. While many Homo sapiens can't help but flash watery smiles and inappropriately blink when ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers ...

"The catastrophic decline in the Grauer’s gorilla subspecies as a result of rampant poaching and habitat destruction is a clear wake-up call for the Congolese government and the broader conservation ...