Dian Fossey began mountain gorilla research in 1967, facing significant conservation challenges. Her dedicated work ...

Dr. Jan Ramer, recently retired from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and The Wilds, made strides in conservation efforts ...

When Biruté Galdikas ventured into the tropical forests of Borneo in 1971, it was a difficult environment. According to the ...

Originally published in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic. Dian Fossey reports from the field on the death of ...

That honour goes to Biruté Galdikas, a Canadian scientist, conservationist and educator who is surprisingly less known than ...

When it came to choosing three people whom he’d send to live with the great apes, legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey picked three women — very consciously, according t ...

By the third morning in Rwanda, as shy hippos surfaced ahead of our boat on Lake Ihema, showing themselves just long enough for us to spot them before slipping back underwater, I realized the gorillas ...

Caitlin McDonald's life was fragile and fleeting. She told her own story in hundreds of videos filmed on her phone.

Hoffnung für die letzten Berggorillas der Erde! Ende 2018 ging eine großartige Nachricht um die Welt: Die Zahl dieser Menschenaffen ist auf mehr als 1000 gestiegen! Nach der jüngsten Zählung der freil ...

Hoy se cumplen diez años de la muerte del único gorila albino conocido hasta la fecha, que fue el trampolín que dio a conocer al investigador Jordi Sabater Pi al gran público. Su carrera fue muy prolí ...

Gondoltad volna, hogy a fák gyökereiken keresztül figyelmeztetik egymást a veszélyre és gondoskodnak beteg utódaikról? Ez ...