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 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 ...

Unfortunately, despite unrelenting efforts to protect this animal species, the gorillas are still being targeted by poachers because of the lucrative prices they fetch in the black market.

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 ...

Park authorities have been assisting ranger families, but the conflict and economic instability leaves them vulnerable ...

World Wildlife Day is on 3 March, which celebrates the importance of animals and plants in the wild and the benefits wildlife ...

The African Wildlife Foundation said causes like habitat loss, poaching, and civil conflict have critically endangered the gorilla population with only about 1,000 left. Under a revenue-sharing ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

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 ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...