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As insane as it sounds, the Ugandan wildlife ranger again calmly whispers: “If a gorilla charges at you, stand your ground.” Apparently when a 450-pound potentially limb-tearing beast sprints at you ...

Our trek began in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park at 8 a.m. that morning after an educational briefing about our specific gorilla family, the Mubara Group. Mubara is a family of 12 gorillas ...

Three new gorilla families have been incorporated into Uganda's gorilla-trekking program in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site. This follows approximately two years of ...

BWINDI, Uganda — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas have ...

Most of my travel destinations focus on places where I can photograph unforgettable landscapes or unusual animals in their natural habitat. To this end I recently flew the 20 hours required to visit ...

Lightning has killed four endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda — including a pregnant female. The apes — a male infant and three female adults, one of which was pregnant — were found in Mgahinga ...

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