It started with itchy gorillas and old scarecrows. It ended with a blueprint for saving both people and wildlife. Yves ...

This tapestry of gorilla diversity is fraying at the edges, with all four subspecies listed as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Dian Fossey, the Fund’s founder and namesake, began her pioneering work in mountain gorilla conservation and protection in 1967. What began as a single researcher in a tent in the Democratic ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

The gorilla climbed to her sunny perch to munch on a snack and hang out with her female companions. That moment might not ...

These gorillas’ population plummeted from 16,900 individuals to just approximately 3,800, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.

LONDON -- Four endangered mountain gorillas have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in one of Uganda's national parks, conservation groups say. Three adult females, one of whom was ...

Kwita Izina has significantly influenced the conservation of gorillas. The mountain gorilla population, which was classified as endangered in the 1980s with fewer than 250 individuals, has seen a ...

Sequencing gorilla DNA To begin establishing a repository of gorillas’ genomic variation, a global network of primatologists is contributing samples in the form of gorilla feces. Some contributors ...

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 ...