Deep in the jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the then-24-year-old student was hundreds of miles from her ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers ...

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla to the edge of extinction. Digit's sad ...

The snares didn’t kill gorillas outright but often pinched off limbs that became gangrenous or fatally infected. Fossey captured and beat poachers with stinging nettles, burned down their huts ...

The western lowland gorilla is a calm, non-aggressive species in danger of sickness and poaching. They knuckle-walk while crawling on all fours, bearing all their weight on their curled third and ...

A pair of proud gorillas strutted their handsome stuff as anti-poaching officers snapped a quick photo. While many Homo sapiens can't help but flash watery smiles and inappropriately blink when ...

Unfortunately, despite unrelenting efforts to protect this animal species, the gorillas are still being targeted by poachers because of the lucrative prices they fetch in the black market.

And in turn, “the gorillas have really transformed Uganda, and brought Ugandan conservation and tourism back on the map.” But in the last 100 years, rampant deforestation, poaching ...