Wild African gorillas are hunted down and slaughtered for their meat with devastating results. Caution! Some images in this video are of a disturbing nature.
*PHOTO: Removing the snare trap from hand of mountain gorilla
For more than a decade, Diddy Mwanaki and Innocent Buranumwa have patrolled the often hostile terrain of Virunga National Park. Employed by Congo's national parks authority, ( ICCN ) they monitor six families of endangered mountain gorillas
For many years gorillas were classified as a single species within the genus Gorilla. However, recent genetic evidence suggests that this classification should be modified to distinguish two separate species: the western and eastern gorillas each
A recent census of the Virunga Volcanoes mountain gorilla population has found that the great apes have increased their numbers by 17 percent, according to conservation authorities in Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Wildlife
Congolese authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of 10 mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year. The suspect is a senior park official and the ongoing investigation attributes the motivation behind
While in Rwanda last month, former Terrace Standard reporter Sarah Artis visited mountain gorillas in a national park and discovered filmmaking is spreading in the African country. Artis was in Africa for two weeks as part of a journalism fellowship
Honore Mashagiro was a director of the Virunga National Park when he allegedly promoted the destruction of the gorillas' habitat for charcoal to make money. He has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the murder of a gorilla family in July 2007.
A park ranger has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the massacre of endangered mountain guerrillas, conservationists said Wednesday.Honore Mashagiro, a ranger in Congo's Virunga National Park, is the chief suspect in the slaying last summer of 10
Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan and an associated project which covers adjoining areas of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UGANDA, Rwanda and the DR Congo have launched a joint trans-boundary conservation initiative to protect mountain gorillas. The Netherlands is funding the four-year project at a cost of four million euros. The project is part of a 10-year strategic plan de
Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa. Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have launched a project to improve their security. www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilla
Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have joined together to help protect endangered mountain gorillas.
The collaborative project - the first of its kind - will seek to prevent poaching and destruction of their habitat.
There are no mountain gorillas in captivity. The only places to see them are Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa. There are only about 700 left in the world, 350 of them in the rainforests on the slopes of volcanoes in
To date, 10 gorillas have been killed by gunmen or poachers, and two of the great apes are still missing. Rangers Diddy and Innocent monitor and protect the remaining gorillas in the war-torn region. Use the BBC webform to ask them questions if you like
