Four gorillas are back in the wild after an impressive journey. According to a news release from the conservation organization Re: Wild, a quartet of critically endangered female eastern lowland ...

Wild mountain gorilla Mafuko gave birth to twins in Virunga National Park on Jan. 3, the park announced on social media "Both appeared to be in healthy condition at the time of the observation," the ...

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 ...

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical ...

With just over 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, any evidence of reproduction is cause for celebration. But the news out of the Democratic Republic of Congo this week is doubly exciting—a ...

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 ...