What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

In this video, a young gorilla named Kwanda is already hard at work practicing his chest pounding and it’s too cute. Kwanda is about three years old and lives with his family in Volcanoes National ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...

CBS 8's Steve Price went gorilla trekking through the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to see the critically endangered ...

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 ...

The landlocked country is just 26,338 square kilometres in size and home to 12.2 million people, making it one of the most ...

Over the last two months, 1,500 hectares of prime mountain gorilla habitat have been cleared by illegal settlers in Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site. Gland, Switzerland – Over the last two ...

Park authorities have been assisting ranger families, but the conflict and economic instability leaves them vulnerable ...

I recently had the rare opportunity to “meet” some mountain gorillas, who share 98.4% of their DNA with humans. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,150 gorillas found in the wild today.