There are about a thousand mountain gorillas remaining on Earth ... from which the gorillas have not escaped unscathed. Habitat loss is a major threat: agriculture, illegal mining, and forest ...

Roxie was a beloved 48-year-old Western lowland gorilla who was a key figure in her troop and helped gorilla conservation.

On Wednesday, April 9, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) shared that recently, Roxie, a 48-year-old female Western lowland ...

“The mountain gorilla faces a grave danger of extinction—primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat,” she wrote. Her 1983 book, Gorillas in the Mist, an affecting ...

The main threat to gorillas is people and the associated increasing pressure on the gorilla's habitat. With so few individuals in the wild the mountain gorilla is listed as critically endangered. The ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says they are remembering the long life of Roxie, a 48-year-old female Western lowland gorilla.

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla ... 8 was not loss enough, the tragedy ...

They have been ravaged by poaching, habitat loss, disease and the violence ... It also sparked a multi-million-dollar boom in mountain gorilla tourism. Today visitors are largely confined to ...