Caught in the crossfire of eastern Congo's deadly conflict are some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas. But for more than a year, that gorilla sector in the nation's east has been ...

The Incredible Bodies Of Eastern Lowland Gorillas Eastern lowland gorillas are found, as their name would indicate, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fully grown ...

East Congo's conflict has put more than a quarter of the world's last mountain gorillas at the mercy of armed groups who hunt and camp in their territory, park officials said on Monday.</p> ...

Chimpanzees and gorillas sometimes eat from the same trees at the same time. Here, a group of chimps is seen in February at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Farmers have overrun thousands of acres in Congo's oldest national park, the latest threat to more than half the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, conservationists and ...

The four gorillas' road back to life in the wild started in 2010, when the first of the gorillas arrived at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE) in Kasuhgo in the ...

Some wealthy visitors pay $500 a day for tracking permits to view the gorillas, which are famed for the grey shimmering hair on the backs of adult males, which gives them the name "silver-backs".

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Park rangers in eastern Congo hope to begin searching this week for dozens of mountain gorillas who have not been seen since rebels took control of an area where the ...