Gorillas

EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


Kevin George

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

The Animal World Celebrates Halloween! (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green


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The World's Most Intelligent Animals (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green


Animals do some amazing things... every week a new video goes viral, proving just how fascinatingly smart animals really are. Check out this slideshow...

Uganda Unveils Online Gorilla Tracking

nytimes.com | Pete Browne | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


"The project aims to bring attention to the plight of gorillas," said Lillian Nsubuga, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, "and any money...

A Day At The Smithsonian's National Zoo In Washington DC (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green


The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC hosts an incredible variety of animal life, including native American alligators, orangutans, Sumatran...

This Week in Animals: Cell Phone Eating Pelicans, Chihuahuas With Heart-Shaped Fur, Runaway Horses and More! (PHOTOS, VOTE)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green


We love the wacky animals stories that hit the HuffPost Green page this week and we hope you'll agree. Vote on your favorite! ...

Baby Gorilla's Day Out (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green


A female gorilla 'Gana' tends to her two days old offspring at a zoo in Muenster, Germany. Twelve-year-old Gana's very public mourning for her last ch...

Rwanda 'Baptises' 18 Endangered Baby Gorillas

Yahoo! News | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green


Rwanda "baptised" 18 rare baby mountain gorillas at what has become an annual event to highlight the plight of the endangered species....

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Gorilla Waves Knife Around In Canadian Zoo-Terror Incident

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media


Holy moley! Why hasn't this story gotten top placement on the Drudge Report, with a kabillion flashing sirens and a animated .gif of Charton Heston s...

What's the South Carolina GOP Going to Say About Michelle the Gorilla Slur

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The gorilla and African-Americans analogy has long been standard fare in racial slurs of blacks. The only wrinkle to that is slapping the depiction on President Obama.

Silverback Gorilla Hates New Cell Phones (PHOTO)

Getty/AFP | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green


Kibabu the silverback gorilla looks over his shoulder on his 32nd birthday in his habitat at Taronga Zoo in Sydney on May 25, 2009. The western world'...

Ape Sh*t

Suz Redfearn | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living


Suz Redfearn

Pre-gorilla poo eating, I'd been able to protect my daughter from the dark and perplexing side of life. But post poo-eating, everything had changed.

Endangered Mountain Gorillas' Safety Signals Optimism In Congo

New York Times | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green


Violence near Congo's Virunga National Park has subsided, allowing residents and rangers to return to the area. The military conflict there has threat...

Humans First Got Crabs From Gorillas

Discover Magazine | Rachel Cernansky | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green


Just as humans and gorillas share a common evolutionary ancestry, the pubic lice that infuriate some members of the two species are also related. Pubi...

Gorilla Warfare: Primates Draw Attention To Congo Conflict

Sydney Morning Herald | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green


Unlike 250,000 of their human neighbours who have had to flee the latest fighting, the gorillas appear untouched so far. But they haven't escaped alto...

Congo's Gorilla Rangers Allowed To Return To Virunga National Park (Video)

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green


I don't know if you saw the post from a couple weeks ago about when rangers at Congo's Virunga National Park, home to about 200 endangered mountain g...

Violence In Congo Reaches Gorillas Deep In Forest

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green


The escalating violence in Congo had chased wildlife rangers deep into the wilderness weeks ago, and had long threatened to encroach upon the gorillas...

Bwindi Gorillas Increasingly Threatened By Human Conflict

VBS.tv | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green


VBS.tv just put up another excellent travel video series focusing on the gorilla population in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where the borders of Ug...

Cute Zoo Animals Eating Birthday Cake (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Nour Akkad | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green


Often while searching through the AP photo archive for serious news items, we'll stumble across some unrelated but amazing images. When the Bush admin...

125,000 Endangered Gorillas Discovered In Congo

Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green


A recent census of the forests of the northern Congo Republic revealed a thriving community of 125,000 western lowland gorillas. Discovered through a ...

Trove Of Endangered Primates Discovered In Africa

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home


A grueling survey of vast tracts of forest and swamp in the northern Congo Republic has revealed the presence of more than 125,000 western lowland gor...

Fox-Owned National Geographic Uses Gorillas as Cover for Exploitation of Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media


Georgianne Nienaber

The gorilla photography on the cover of National Geographic Magazine conveys a the message that animals are more important than people. It is colonialist, racist, and supportive of multi-national and strategic interests.

Gorilla Killings in Virunga National Park, Congo

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living


Charlie Rose

Mountain gorillas are an endangered species with some 700 alive. Nearly half of these animals live in Virunga National Park which borders Uganda, Rwan...

Congo Rebels Seize Endangered Gorilla Refuge

AP via CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for endangered mountain gorillas, threatening one of the last known popu...