Mountain Gorilla Stories

  • How helping gorillas helps forests

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2023
    The silverback mountain gorilla is a 400-plus-pound mass of muscles built through a daily diet of about 40 pounds of leaves, stems, shoots, and fruit.
    Silverback mountain gorilla in a green jungle
  • Eight species making a comeback

    March 03, 2022

    Recovering species is essential for effective wildlife conservation and critical to the work WWF does around the world. Here are just a few of our favorite, recent recovery stories.

    Banke Nepal camera trap
  • Nine reasons to feel hopeful for wildlife

    March 03, 2020

    In honor of World Wildlife Day, we celebrate some hopeful conservation stories to remind us actions make a difference and there’s still time to preserve our natural world if we all do our part.

    Tiger captured with camera trap
  • Mountain gorilla numbers rise in a Central African protected forest

    December 19, 2019

    A recent survey revealed the largest number of mountain gorillas ever recorded in a large swathe of protected forest in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. WWF and partners counted 459 individuals, up from an estimated 400 in 2011, in the 83,840-acre Bwindi-Sarambwe ecosystem.

    Portrait of gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
  • Wild mountain gorilla numbers grow to more than 1,000

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2019
    During 2015 and 2016, survey teams combed the Virunga Massif’s dense, mountainous forests in two sweeps in search of gorillas. What they found was good: 604 gorillas—up from just 480 in 2010.
    Mother and baby mountain gorilla
  • 5 remarkable animal dads

    In honor of Father’s Day, we’re celebrating some outstanding animal dads who go to great lengths for their offspring, whether it's protecting them from threats, keeping them warm and fed, or socializing them through play.

    Silverback gorilla with youngster
  • Gathering new intelligence on gorillas

    WWF Magazine: Summer 2016
    A new census in Virunga aids in conservation
    Young gorilla and its mother
  • How Can We Help Mountain Gorillas Deal With Climate Change?

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2014
    Which traits of mountain gorillas might allow them to tolerate or respond to rapidly changing climate conditions, and how can WWF help?
    Family of gorillas
  • What do gorillas eat? And other gorilla facts

    Gorillas, the largest living primates, make their homes in central Africa. Poaching, disease and habitat destruction remain threats for gorillas, and WWF is working to designate new protected areas where populations can thrive.

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