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Every month Kambale and Kabuyaya trek into the jungles of Virunga National Park in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to assess each gorilla’s health. They identify any ...
Conservationists and officials work with residents to enhance mountain gorilla survival. Neil Ever Osborne In Virunga National Park, a 23-member group, Kabirizi, named for the lead silverback ...
Virunga National Park is a global destination known for its wildlife safaris, mountain gorilla trekking, and scenic landscapes. Now, with the recent warning, many fear a decline in visitors who ...
I occupied a branch of another tree, slightly downhill from the gorilla who stared at me ... two of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga range. Camp, which consists of several sheet-metal cabins ...
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 ...
In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...
Virunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and more than 1,000 hippos [Getty Images] ...
Virunga was established in 1925 and is renowned for its wildlife, particularly mountain gorillas, and magnificent landscapes. It is also located at the heart of the conflicts that have been ...
The number of mountain gorillas has increased from the 2010 estimate of 786 after a count in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The critically endangered animals live only in two locations, ...