When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was hurtling towards extinction. She was one of the Trimates, a trio of female primatologists that included Jane ...

On December 26, 1985, Dr. Dian Fossey was tragically murdered in her cabin deep within the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. On the 40th ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For a ...

Andi, pictured above, is one of the three western lowland gorillas that calls the San Antonio Zoo's Congo Falls home.

Since opening on December 13, Congo Falls has nearly doubled the San Antonio Zoo's visitor budget to over 30,000, a feat even more impressive considering San Antonio has seen less than ideal weather.

This year’s World Tourism Day theme, Tourism and Sustainable Transformation, shines a light on the growing movement toward more thoughtful, responsible travel. As traveler attitudes evolve, so too ...

Zoo Knoxville welcomes Mokolo, a 10-year-old giraffe, as part of its conservation effort to protect endangered species, ...

More than 3,000 San Antonio second graders will get a free trip to the zoo, thanks to a $1 million donation to the city’s third-largest school district.

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...