Part of the Virunga Mountains, a range of dormant volcanoes covered in biodiverse rainforest, the park is home to approximately 380 mountain gorillas. There are 20 habituated gorilla groups, 12 of ...

The previous mountain gorilla census of 2018 in Bwindi-Sarambwe gave an estimate of 459 individuals. Together with the Virunga census results of 2015, the total population of mountain gorillas was ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

The night before, the country’s preeminent primatologist Dr. Emily Otali had briefed me on what to expect during my trek into the jungle, while staying at Kibale Lodge—the newest property in Volcanoes ...

A mountain gorilla at Virunga National Park. Image courtesy of Fanny Schertzer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). Governments in the region are well aware of the potential for cacao production.

home to the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park. Kenya’s Maasai Mara to the east, with its famed mass annual wildebeest migration. To the south, Table Mountain, a flat-topped mountain ove ...

“Before Virunga, we were mining. With Virunga ... killed and washed away in what Gouspillou described as “a rush of water that came down from the mountains.” Then, in another tragic event just six ...

Mountain gorillas, known scientifically as Gorilla beringei beringei, are a critically endangered subspecies of the eastern gorilla. These magnificent creatures primarily inhabit the dense forests of ...

Volcanoes National Park is a national park in northwestern Rwanda. It covers 160 square kilometres of rainforest and encompasses five of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains. Eastern Lowland ...