As Uganda’s first wildlife vet, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has spent 30 years working to restore Uganda’s mountain gorilla ...

This story appears in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was Digit, and he was gone. The mutilated body, head and hands hacked off for grisly trophies, lay limp in the brush ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

The critically endangered mountain gorilla is getting help in Uganda from the African Wildlife Foundation as they lead guided gorilla treks through the forest. A portion of the cost goes to ...

Mountain gorillas - an endangered species - survive in only two regions in the world: the Virunga Massif (a chain 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 ...

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