A group of Grauer’s Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left.

A group of Grauer’s Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon.

A group of Grauer’s Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left.

Kahuzi-Biega National Park. ... Park guards and Congolese soldiers burned villages and killed 20 Indigenous Batwa people between 2019 and 2021 in the name of protecting ecosystems.

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is a Unesco World Heritage site west of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Congo, which was seized by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in February.

In the 1970s, the military expelled some 6,000 Batwa from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... the population of gorillas grew only slightly.

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site home to hundreds of species of birds and one of the last groups of eastern lowland gorillas, also known as Grauer's gorillas (Getty ...

Grauer’s gorillas gather around the body of an unknown male they came across in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Researchers from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund were on hand to observe.

Rodrigue Katembo has quite a resume: child soldier, park ranger, undercover agent, friend of gorillas and elephants. And now, he is a Goldman Environmental Prize winner.