In the Virunga mountains between Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, the mountain gorilla population has grown from 242 individuals in 1981 to more than 1,000 in 2020. This ...

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

Number of mountain gorillas in the world is growing - the incredible legacy of Dian Fossey who was murdered 40 years ago on Boxing Day 1985 ...

Zac Mills is a wildlife photographer and conservationist who works with bears, big cats, and great apes. He founded The ...

Dian Fossey in Rwanda with mountain gorillas, 1970 Dian Fossey pioneered the process of habituating gorillas to her presence ...

More than half of the world’s mountain gorillas live in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The sole luxury accommodation within the park gates is the ...

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The gorilla is gargantuan. There’s a promise of raw power in its chest, supreme agility in arms that ripple with muscle, and wisdom in ...

2025 was an incredible travel year, but for some reason, it also felt underwhelming to the core activities I truly love: ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...