For the world's last remaining mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei), there is little room to move. Numbering only about 700, these great apes are split into two populations and confined to two separate areas, both located in one of the most
4th of July - we are celebrating Koko's 37th birthday, a joyous occasion, with presents, wonderful activities and great food. That's why I am personally reaching out today to urge you to make a unique birthday gift to Koko ...
ZSL's newest gorilla Mjukuu is enjoying her first summer at ZSL London Zoo - thanks to special fruit ice blocks, designed to stimulate her natural behaviour and curiosity.
<p>Image Description: In a 40-50 year lifetime, a female mountain gorilla might have only 2-6 surviving offspring. This slow reproduction makes this species even more threatened. </p>
the overgrown fields ended abruptly in a shock of thick forest, and here we are. And there they are. An entire family of mountain gorillas. Just hanging out, in the trees, and in the brush beneath them.
All told, seven Virunga mountain gorillas had been killed in less than two months. Brent Stirton's photographs of the dead creatures being carried like royalty by weeping villagers ran in newspapers and magazines around the world. The murders of these int
The Spanish government has contributed USD 368,000 to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) led initiative to help protect gorillas, chimpanzees and their habitats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
With temperatures in the mid 20s, many of us choose to sit on the grass with a nice fruit ice lolly. And even gorillas like this great way to cool down too! Gorilla keeper Daniel Simmonds said: 'In this really hot weather we are giving the gorillas huge
Western lowland gorillas have been classified as endangered for over 10 years and their falling populations are being decimated further by habitat loss, disease and poaching. There are estimated to be just 100,000 gorillas left clinging to existence in
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday Thursday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruitcake and treats wrapped in banana leaf.
If one must travel roughly 1,800 miles to live with a strange man, it might be a comfort to make such a trip with one's mother. On Friday, Kebara, an 11-year-old female gorilla and Penny, her 19-year-old mom, were shipped by FedEx from the San Diego Zoo
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity has celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Gorillas are an amazing mammal for one. But they are also going extinct in the wild from humans going into Africa and hunting and logging which ended up killing the Gorillas. We as humans started it, we need to fix it. Please help save the Gorillas!!
Conducting wildlife surveys last June in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, a World Heritage Site, biologists from WCS and the Congolese Research Center for Natural Sciences found just 130 endangered eastern lowland gorillas (i.e. Grauer's gorillas) in their
Odzala is teaming with wildlife, and one of its remarkable qualities is the high density of western lowland gorillas. Current estimates suggest that there may be as many gorillas in this park as previously thought to exist in all of Central Africa.
