It was a routine patrol around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday when six rangers working at Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were ambushed by a local militia group. The attack is ...

In May 2008 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 80 Mai Mai militia ambushed a unit of 12 wildlife rangers on patrol near Rwindi in Virunga National Park, wounding Habimana Buzara in the leg ...

The appearance of nearly 600 elephants in Virunga National Park, in the DRC, suggests it's safer for wildlife than it once was. Some of the nearly 600 elephants that recently arrived from Uganda move ...

Orphaned mountain gorilla Ndkasi and her ICCN conservation ranger care-giver Baboo play in the make-shift gorilla orphanage in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2008. Orphaned mountain ...

(WJW) – At least 50 hippos and other large animals were found dead due to anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo’s Virunga National Park. According to Reuters, Virunga National Park Director Emmanuel De ...