Visiting mountain gorillas in their natural habitat in Rwanda is special on its own. There's a new lodge dramatic in both ...

According to Visit Rwanda, the park is home to 12 mountain gorilla families. There are only 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild. That said, a unique vantage point affording unrivaled views ...

but this is the “interspecies money” concept being explored in a trial involving a family of 19 mountain gorillas in Rwanda (with the intention of extending across the whole country next year).

“Rwanda has long been looked at as an add-on destination that people go to for gorilla trekking, but there’s much more to see and do,” Calmeyer says. “Kigali is a dynamic city, and other ...

There's a national park in Rwanda that allows you to hike amongst giant gorillas in their natural habitat. You must have a permit to enter the park, which will run you $1500. But if you've ever ...

Shortly after dawn two mountain gorillas swing gracefully over the shoulder-high stone wall that borders Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda. Landing lightly on cropped grass ...

"I tell them, 'I’m just a vet.'" In 1985 Dian Fossey hired veterinarian James Foster to join her research station in Rwanda as the first "gorilla doctor." A few weeks later Fossey was murdered ...

Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park has the advantage of easier treks due to less dense vegetation. The Virunga National Park in ...

An Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, the US scientist who dedicated her life to studying and protecting the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Drama ...

The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made contact with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She opened up a window on to their secret lives. Forty years on ...

Unlike traditional safari lodges where guests observe animals from a distance, a select few hotels around the world offer rare and close-up interactions with wi ...