NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE The end result, says Kelly, is likely to be a tremendous, irreversible loss of genetic diversity. But even if that weren’t the case, the Arctic’s wildlife would st ...

This story appears in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic magazine ... slightly downhill from the gorilla who stared at me. We were both in a forest on Mount Visoke in Rwanda, where ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

(Read about Virunga's park warden, National Geographic Explorer Emmanuel de Merode, who is battling to save gorillas amid brutal conflict.) Ndakasi, a 10-year-old gorilla, is sedated in order to ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after dawn two mountain gorillas swing gracefully over the shoulder-high stone wall that borders Volcanoes ...