Mountain Gorillas Archives

August 8, 2017

Young gorilla faces many challenges

Three-year-old mountain gorilla Masunzu has faced quite a few hurdles in his young life so far, yet his journey...

June 16, 2017

Silverback Giraneza died on May 12, 2017, after an interesting, challenging and rather aggressive life. He was born in...

May 3, 2017

When Dian Fossey began her pioneering studies of mountain gorillas 50 years ago, she soon realized that in order...

April 26, 2017

Twenty-nine-year-old silverback Inshuti has had an interesting life, spending most of his adulthood as a lone silverback, though for...

April 5, 2017

After two years with episodes of illness and a few recent weeks showing visible deterioration, dominant silverback Isabukuru died...

March 27, 2017

We are deeply saddened to report that 24-year-old dominant silverback Isabukuru was found dead on Sunday March 26, 2017. Isabukuru’s...

January 9, 2017

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is very sad to report that the remaining mountain gorilla twin, Kura who was...

December 5, 2016

Nearly 50 years of studying gorillas at our Karisoke Research Center means we have observed the gorillas doing a...

July 30, 2016

A female gorilla who lives in one of the mountain gorilla groups monitored daily by the Dian Fossey Gorilla...

June 15, 2016

As the mountain gorilla twins born in January approach their sixth month of life, their increasing size means that...

February 5, 2016

Therre are not many fruiting trees in the Virunga volcanoes habitat where the mountain gorillas live, so they rarely...

December 2, 2012

One of the Fossey Fund’s anti-poaching camps near Volcanoes National Park was attacked on Dec. 2. A ranger was...