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Soon, Erin Marie Williams will trade the Virunga Mountains for mountains of data, and retreat to a motion analysis lab. And Rwanda's gorillas are well on their way to being "de-mistified" after 10 ...
An orphaned mountain gorilla who became an internet sensation after a selfie of her with her keeper went viral has died. Virunga National Park said Ndakasi died on the evening of September 26 ...
Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Africa’s oldest national park. It is also Africa’s most dangerous. On October 25th, park ranger Jean Claude Kiza Vunabandi ...
One of the younger gorillas in Virunga National Park, which is home to nearly a quarter of all remaining mountain gorillas in the wild.
In 2011, biologist Martha Robbins and her colleagues searched for trends in Virunga mountain gorilla populations using more than 40 years of data.
3. The Virunga Mountains are located near the Equator on which continent? 4. Nullarbor National Park, known for its caves, coastal cliffs and wombats, is located on which continent? 5.
Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla whose image went viral when she photobombed her caretaker’s selfie, has died at the age of 14.
Spanning volcanic lava craters, snowcapped mountains, tropical rainforest, misty lakes and sweeping African savanna, Virunga National Park is both the oldest in Africa, designated in 1925, and the ...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Virunga National Park is home to a quarter of the world's endangered mountain gorillas—along with the country's deadliest rebel groups. To keep the gorillas ...
Gorillas rest in the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. More than half of the world's mountain gorillas live in the volcanic chain in East Africa.