After a shocking report earlier this year uncovered a catastrophic collapse in the population of Grauer’s gorilla, the world's largest primate has now been reclassified as Critically Endangered on the ...

Officials at the Zoo​ on Friday confirmed that their 43-year-old endangered Western lowland gorilla named "Oscar Jonesy" died after a medical procedure on Thursday afternoon.

Gorillas are one of the most endangered animals today, and there are various reasons behind this. In 2010, there were only 480 gorillas left in the world. Luckily the population increased to 604 ...

Four mountain gorillas have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. With only some 700 individuals remaining in the wild, the gorilla deaths represent a huge loss to a ...

SYDNEY, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vets at the Melbourne Zoo have commenced an investigation into the sudden death of a 20-year-old female gorilla. The zoo said in a statement that Kimya, a western lowland ...

Human activity has increased the rate of extinction by several orders of ... a hand in breeding to training dogs to sniff out rare gorillas, scientists are taking extraordinary measures to save ...

With so few individuals in the wild the mountain gorilla is listed as critically endangered. The good news is, their numbers have recently been rising. It’s not too late for us to protect our mighty ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A critically endangered Western lowland gorilla, named "Oscar Jonesy," died on Thursday afternoon following a medical procedure at 43 years old, according to the San Francisco Zoo.