he shared my aim to balance research with the goal of saving the imperiled mountain gorillas that I was studying from my base camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, in central Africa.

I was shortly to leave Africa for a prolonged stay in Cambridge, England, where I would begin working on a doctoral thesis and other technical reports on gorilla behavior. Peanuts left his tree ...

It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,150 gorillas found in the wild today. They predominantly live in two countries in Africa – 603 in Rwanda and 500 in Uganda, according to the latest ...

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 ...