Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mafuko, who is 22 years old, and her twins will be closely monitored by staff at Virunga National Park to support them at this ...

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While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

A mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in war-ravaged eastern Congo, a national park said on Wednesday, in what it described as “a major event” for the endangered subspecies. The birth of the two ...

By Elodie Toto Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) that conservationists reintroduced to the wild in October 2024. After ...

(AP) The population of Uganda’s mountain gorillas has grown to 400, up from 302 in 2006, according to a census conducted last year, bringing the total number of mountain gorillas in Africa to 880 and ...

Tom Harrison knuckle-walked 26 miles to raise money for endangered gorillas. — -- One man’s idea to raise awareness and money for protecting endangered gorillas in Africa might seem bananas to ...

WASHINGTON — Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports. Outbreaks in the Congo Republic and Gabon ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Friday, Sept. 24 is World Gorilla Day, and conservationists are asking people in North Carolina to donate their old cellphones and computers to help save the lives of gorillas around ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 27, 1985, American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied mountain gorillas in Africa for nearly 20 years, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – A census of mountain gorillas in Uganda reveals their population has increased to 400, up from 302 in 2006, bringing the total number of mountain gorillas in Africa to 880 and ...