KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said.

August 2, 2023: In eastern Congo (South Kivu province) there are an estimated 10,000 local Batwa tribesmen and their families living in makeshift encampments on the edge of the KBNP (Kahuzi-Biega ...

Meanwhile, the gorilla population in Central Africa's Virunga Conservation Area -- a fertile volcanic mountain chain spanning the frontiers of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda -- has risen by roughly 10 ...

A U.N.-backed report last month said gorillas may become near-extinct in Africa's Greater Congo Basin by the mid-2020s unless action is taken to stop poaching and protect their habitat.

The internet is fawning over a selfie featuring two gorillas, Ndakazi and Ndeze, and Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger at Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. Shamavu told the Associated Press that he ...

East Congo's conflict has put more than a quarter of the world's last mountain gorillas at the mercy of armed groups who hunt and camp in their territory, park officials said on Monday.</p> ...

KABARE, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Tropical forests in eastern Congo that fell into rebel hands this year have seen a spike in illegal logging to produce charcoal and timber ...

The traffickers were asking US$8,000 for the gorilla, a female about 3-4 years old, taken from the Mikeno sector of the park. She is thought to have died about a week ago. The group is also believed ...

In 1990 the last gorilla resident of the San Antonio Zoo, Mopie, was moved to the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, D.C. In a press release regarding the groundbreaking of Congo Falls, the zoo ...

For the first time in 30 years, gorillas return to the San Antonio Zoo and will soon take over a new massive habitat with a ...