Of these, southern Cameroon’s Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary at 26,780 hectares is one of the smallest. A young western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) strikes a sassy pose in Gabon.
A version of this story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Trackers swing their machetes at the thick jungle, and ...