By Elodie Toto “For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led ...

Virunga National Park is one of the natural treasures of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and this year, it ...

The intensifying security crisis in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years is undermining ...

By then, as all the world was shocked to learn, Fossey, too, had been murdered, in her cabin in Karisoke, a research site in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. She would not be the last person to ...

Tests confirmed anthrax poisoning, said Virunga Park director Emmanuel De Merode, adding that buffalo have been killed too. The exact cause of the poisoning was not yet clear. Images shared by the ...

Virunga National Park was established in 1925 and is renowned for its wildlife, particularly mountain gorillas, and magnificent landscapes. But it is located at the heart of conflicts that have ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its director has said. Photos shared by the Virunga National Park in the Democratic ...

At some 10,000 feet above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Mikeno, a dormant volcano in the Virunga Mountains, the trackers pick up signs of a gorilla clan led by a silverback—so-called for the ...

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new ...

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's ...

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] ...