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 ...

A gorilla shared a sweet moment with a man she has known her whole life - stealing his hat and giving him a tender hug. Video shows Damian Aspinall, an animal conservationist, crouched in front of ...

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

Wendee Nicole was studying tropical forest conservation in 2014 when she learned about the plight of the Batwa people of Uganda. She sold her house in Texas and moved there to help.

Habituation is a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered Eastern lowland gorillas from extinction but it does not come without risks. - There are actually two methods of habituating ...

He sat down to watch my "feeding" but didn't seem particularly impressed, so I changed activities; I scratched my scalp noisily to make a sound familiar to gorillas, who do a great deal of scratching.

The chilling fog swirls a tag game in ... While most of the gorillas were still eating, two young adults chased one another across the clearing. The others stopped feeding to watch.

BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt visits Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, to find out what mountain gorilla conservation can tell us about protecting other species. I could tell she knew I was ...

One of the most fantastic experiences in Dzanga-Sangha is the possibility of any tourist to be within meters away of wild gorillas as they go through their daily lives in their natural habitat. This ...

In 2015, Google's Photos app labelled pictures of black people as "gorillas". The company said it was "appalled and genuinely sorry", though its fix, Wired reported in 2018, was simply to censor ...

The hunting, trading and consumption of gorillas – and other apes – is almost universally illegal in all Congo Basin countries. However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of ...