KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo—It wouldn’t be fair to accuse Mpungwe of racism. But the first time the 500-pound gorilla saw a white man, he did flee into the forest and succumb to an ...

The gorilla is being treated. The suspect had been in the interior of the Congo near the gorillas' wild habitat. Gorillas can bring as much as $20,000 on the black market.

Unlike in Rwanda, where more than 25,000 tourists go gorilla trekking annually, political instability kept the number of such visitors to neighboring Congo in the 500-1,000 range for the five ...

Friend of Intelligent Travel, Molly Feltner, shares this story of sitting face-to-face with a silverback in Congo as one of the first tourists to visit Virunga National Park since tourism reopened ...

Let NATURE’s Snowflake: The White Gorilla take you on a fascinating excursion into this remarkable world and introduce you to history’s only known albino gorilla. Production Credits .

Virunga National Park - The baby gorilla climbs to the top of a flimsy tree and giddily glides down it, his weight bending in half the trunk, which is just a few inches wide. He steps off and the ...

Two wild gorilla moms were spotted with their newborn babies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rare and beautiful footage shows. The births mark two new additions to the Bageni mountain ...

A gorilla war in Congo. By Edmund Sanders . Dec. 6, 2008 12 AM PT . ... WhatsApp; Copy Link URL Copied! Print; Sanders is a Times staff writer. VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, CONGO — Past some of the ...

Past some of the greenest hills, poorest villages and roughest roads in Africa, a machete-wielding ranger hacks his way deep into the jungle until a canopy of giant ferns and bamboo eclipses the ...

Dec. 28 2008: Baby gorilla Wathaut, from the Mapuwa family group of gorillas, is seen at the Virunga National Park, near the Ugandan border in eastern Congo. The Congolese Wildlife Authority says ...