While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

At least 50 hippos have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa's great lakes. That's according to ...

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. “It is with ...

In the forested slopes of eastern Congo, a single birth has given conservationists a rare reason to celebrate. A wild mountain gorilla has delivered twins in Virunga National Park, a fragile ...

An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's ...

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- Move over, Kim Kardashian: there's a new queen of selfies -- two of them, in fact. The internet is fawning over a selfie featuring two gorillas, Ndakazi and Ndeze, and ...

In a rare conservation milestone, a set of mountain gorilla twins has been born in Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest national park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The twin ...

Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning ...

A world-famous gorilla reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo denounced on Wednesday the "illegal sale" of land within its territory. "The perpetrators falsely claim that the Congolese ...

An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's ...