By Gradel Muyisa BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant ...

Tests confirmed anthrax poisoning, said Virunga Park director Emmanuel De Merode, adding that buffalo have been killed too. The exact cause of the poisoning was not yet clear. Images shared by the ...

Virunga National Park was established in 1925 and is renowned for its wildlife, particularly mountain gorillas, and magnificent landscapes. But it is located at the heart of conflicts that have ...

By then, as all the world was shocked to learn, Fossey, too, had been murdered, in her cabin in Karisoke, a research site in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. She would not be the last person to ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its ...

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

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 naturally occurring form of anthrax took down the behemoths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park — with officials warning that the spore-forming bacterium ...

At least 50 hippos have been killed by anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lifeless mammals were seen by park rangers floating down a river south of Lake Edward, which ...

Virunga was established in 1925 and is renowned for its wildlife, particularly mountain gorillas, and magnificent landscapes. It is also located at the heart of the conflicts that have been ...

Virunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and more than 1,000 hippos [Getty Images] ...