The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely ...

In the forested slopes of eastern Congo, a single birth has given conservationists a rare reason to celebrate. A wild ...

A wild mountain gorilla has given birth twins in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The newborns, ...

Virunga, situated in a conflict-prone part of DR Congo, is Africa's oldest and largest national park and was set up 100 years ...

The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins.

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, ...

Rare twin mountain gorillas born in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park are raising hopes for the survival of the endangered ...

Around half of mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains, including Mafuko's family - the Bageni family. Thanks to the ...

Learn how an endangered species that rarely has twins is caring for two newborns — and why the coming weeks matter most.

This Sentinel-1 radar composite image features the Virunga Mountains in East Africa: a chain of volcanoes stretching across Rwanda’s northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic ...

A mountain gorilla named Mafuko gives birth to twins, a "rare and remarkable event", in Virunga National Park in the ...