A mountain gorilla named Mafuko gives birth to twins, a "rare and remarkable event", in Virunga National Park in the ...

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, ...

Learn how an endangered species that rarely has twins is caring for two newborns — and why the coming weeks matter most.

In the forested slopes of eastern Congo, a single birth has given conservationists a rare reason to celebrate. A wild ...

Around half of mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains, including Mafuko's family - the Bageni family. Thanks to the ...

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the gorillas has helped support conservation efforts and transformed communities. Are ...

Where Do Mountain Gorillas Live? As their name suggests, mountain gorillas live at high elevations deep in the forests of mountain ranges. Their range extends in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National ...

In what must have been an equally terrifying and thrilling encounter, tourists in Rwanda get up close and personal with a massive silverback mountain gorilla. The tourists manage to keep their cool, ...

WASHINGTON — There are more gorillas in the mist — a rare conservation success story, scientists say. After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the ...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) lists the status of mountain gorillas as "endangered" with their population at over 1,000.