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Gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park Scratch the Ground for Truffles, Not for Insects as Long Assumed

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April 16, 2025
Gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park Scratch the Ground for Truffles, Not for Insects as Long Assumed
A scientific paper recently published reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging strategy to access a species of deer truffle, identified as Elaphomyces labyrinthinus, and not insects, as long assumed. These findings were developed by Gaston Abea, who became the first Indigenous Person in Ndoki to become the lead author of a peer-reviewed scientific paper.  This truffle gorilla foraging behavior seems to have social implication...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Conservation science


One of the World’s Most Iconic Lowland Gorillas, Kingo, of the Republic of Congo, Has Died of Old Age

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January 06, 2024
One of the World’s Most Iconic Lowland Gorillas, Kingo, of the Republic of Congo, Has Died of Old Age
  Kingo, a Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorilla, Inspired Three Decades of Conservation Watch a video on Kingo HERE Broll of Kingo Hi-Res Photos of Kingo One of the world’s most iconic lowland gorillas, Kingo, who was featured in international news media and inspired three decades of conservation, was found dead on Dec. 26, 2023. Lowland gorillas are listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN. Kingo's age is estimated to be 45 years. The cause of his deat...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Celebration


Nouabalé-Ndoki Becomes First Certified Gorilla Friendly (TM) National Park

Press release

September 27, 2023
Nouabalé-Ndoki Becomes First Certified Gorilla Friendly (TM) National Park
Dropbox for hi-res photos and videos   Republic of Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is proud to have received a global conservation Gorilla FriendlyTM certification, which guarantees the application of best practices in all gorilla-related operations, from tourism to research, to safeguard the wellbeing of the primates and ensure active support for and from the park’s neighboring communities. The Gorilla FriendlyTM certification is a program of Wildli...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Policy & partnership


Stories and history of Mondika

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August 10, 2021
Stories and history of Mondika
Diane Doran-Sheehy looking through binoculars, 1998 ©Natashah Shah At the edge of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, in a truly remote part of the northern Congo rainforest, the last 25 years have seen the Mondika research site evolve from a modest forest camp, into one of the world’s most important centres for studies on the western lowland gorilla, thanks to the dedication of a long line of incredible people. This is the history of the site, in their words. It all started with &ldq...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Conservation science


African great apes predicted to suffer massive range declines in the next 30 years, with the greatest loss in unprotected areas

Science publication

June 07, 2021
African great apes predicted to suffer massive range declines in the next 30 years, with the greatest loss in unprotected areas
Read the study   A new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa’s great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – due to the impacts of climate change, land-use changes and human population growth. For their analysis, the authors compiled information on African ape occurrence held in the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S. database, a repository that includes a remarkable amount of information on population stat...

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Tags: gorillas, Conservation science, Protected areas, Chimpanzees


Silverback Gorilla Celebrates 40th Birthday in Congo Rainforest

Press release

June 14, 2018
Silverback Gorilla Celebrates 40th Birthday in Congo Rainforest
Father of 20; "Kingo" is described by researchers as doting father, fierce defender of family. He’s a father of 20 from nine different mothers. He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats. Meet Kingo, a wild silverback gorilla who is celebrating his 40th birthday. WCS Congo Program researchers wrote a touching tribute to Kingo...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas, Celebration


Massive Study Across Western Equatorial Africa Finds More Gorillas and Chimpanzees Than Expected, but 80% Are Outside the Safe Havens of Protected Areas

Science publication

April 25, 2018
Massive Study Across Western Equatorial Africa Finds More Gorillas and Chimpanzees Than Expected, but 80% Are Outside the Safe Havens of Protected Areas
A WCS-led study estimates that more than 360,000 gorillas and nearly 130,000 chimpanzees still inhabit the forests of Western Equatorial Africa--approximately one third and one tenth more than previously thought Conservationists from several organizations and government agencies gathered and analyzed a decade of data on western lowland gorilla and central chimpanzee populations in the largest ever survey of these great apes Approximately 80 percent of these great apes live outside protected ...

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Tags: gorillas, Conservation science, Chimpanzees


Video Shows Rare Glimpse of Newborn Gorilla In the Wild

Video

March 09, 2018
Video Shows Rare Glimpse of Newborn Gorilla In the Wild
  Video taken in Republic of Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park Well-known gorilla silverback Kingo is the proud father Watch the video Conservationists from the WCS Congo Program have captured incredible video of a western lowland gorilla newborn living in the rainforests of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. The infant was barely a week old when the footage was shot last month, according to the WCS scientists who managed to capture the footage. For a short...

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Tags: Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas


Adult Male Gorillas Call More During Feeding Than Females, Juveniles

Science publication

February 24, 2016
Adult Male Gorillas Call More During Feeding Than Females, Juveniles
Adult male gorillas in the wild ‘sing’ and ‘hum’ more during feeding than their younger or female counterparts, according to a study published today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eva Maria Luef and Simone Pika at the Humboldt Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany, and their colleague Thomas Breuer from the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.  To access the study, click here: http://journals.plos.org/plos...

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Tags: gorillas, Conservation science


Conservationists Release Manual on Protecting Great Apes in Forest Concessions

Press release

May 21, 2013
A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the plight of great apes in the forest concessions of Central Africa and recommends actions to improve protection for gorillas and chimpanzees in these mixed-used landscapes, according to authors from the Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, IUCN, Lincoln Park Zoo and Washington University. While most conservation efforts are focused on protecting great apes and other species in Central Africa’s protecte...

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Tags: gorillas, Wildlife protection, Chimpanzees, Periphery


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