The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

By Elodie Toto Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a ...

Uganda is home to nearly half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas, and in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, ...

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The gorilla climbed to her sunny perch to munch on a snack and hang out with her female companions. That moment might not sound as thrilling as an encounter with the greatest of great apes, the alpha ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay traveled to rural villages and urban wildlife markets, gathering testimonies from hunters who have violated cultural taboos to kill apes, ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

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