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 ...

The tangled vines hide the forest's many dangers: poachers, rebels, and herds of wild elephants. After a few hours, a path of trampled brush leads to a clearing where a group of mountain gorillas ...

Howletts Wild Animal Park is a 90 acre breeding sanctuary for some of the most rare and endangered species in the world, including critically endangered western lowland gorillas, big cats ...

One of the most fantastic experiences in Dzanga-Sangha is the possibility of any tourist to be within meters away of wild gorillas as they go through their daily lives in their natural habitat. This ...

We were both in a forest on Mount Visoke in Rwanda, where I have been studying gorillas in the wild. The face was familiar, not only by its features but by its impish expression; it belonged to ...

Lea: Tell us briefly how gorillas live and what they're like in the wild. Chris Johnston They're very much like us. They live in family groups. They kind of worry about the same things.