A forest ranger has been killed and another seriously injured in a violent clash with gorilla poachers outside a national park in Cameroon, WWF has learned. The attack occurred on September 27 about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The hunting, trading and consumption of gorillas – and other apes – is almost universally illegal in all Congo Basin countries. However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of ...

Mountain gorillas used occasionally to be caught in the traps poachers set to catch deer, wild pigs and other animals. They would either sell their catch as bush meat or use it to help feed their ...

The image was taken at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, DR Congo, where the animals were raised after poachers killed their parents. The park's deputy director told BBC Newsday that ...