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

The disease has been connected to the deaths of animals at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical ...

(Reuters) -At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one ...

Africa’s first national park, Virunga, is 90 years old today. While we celebrate this milestone with great joy, we are deeply concerned about its future. For while Virunga – including the people and ...

Roughly 50 hippopotamuses at Africa’s premier nature reserve died from anthrax poisoning, according to park officials. The naturally occurring form of anthrax took down the behemoths in the Democratic ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early concerns of an anthrax outbreak were sparked by the deaths of dozens of buffaloes and hippos. More than 20 ...

A pair of mountain gorilla twins were born to a 22-year-old ape in a remote forest in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The birth was discovered on January 3 by conservationists at Virunga ...

Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bitini Ndiyanabo Kanane has been the customary chief of the Mudja community near Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo since ...

Celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of Congo’s Virunga National Park, one of Africa’s oldest parks, were dampened with the recent murder of a ranger by rebels who use the park as a military base ...