Inspired by an ancient Rwandan practice, Kwita Izina honours each button-cute baby gorilla born in Volcanoes National Park ...

Some of the trackers are former gorilla poachers. Sooner or later, they always find the gorilla’s nests. Malui’s family of nine has been followed from dawn to dusk nearly every day since 2000.

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 ...

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 ...

A gorilla guide would earn more than a gorilla poacher. Selling produce to a local lodge would bring in more money than hawking it on the street. Working as a manager in a hotel would pay better ...

The western lowland gorilla is a calm, non-aggressive species in danger of sickness and poaching. They knuckle-walk while ...

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 ...

For millennia, mountain gorillas roamed across the forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in the last 100 years, rampant deforestation, poaching, and conflicts have ...

Park rangers in Cameroon rescue a baby gorilla from the hands of poachers. Find out more about WWF's work in the Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary. On 20 June, five rangers out on a two-week anti-poaching ...

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.

And in turn, “the gorillas have really transformed Uganda, and brought Ugandan conservation and tourism back on the map.” But in the last 100 years, rampant deforestation, poaching ...