Two eastern lowland gorillas (also known as Grauer’s gorillas) rest near each other in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Known as the world’s largest living primates, these gorillas are critically endangered following decades of political upheaval in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph by Marcus Westberg

Gorillas in Their Midst

11.22.2023

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, community-led conservation has emerged from the chaos of war, but the ghosts of colonialism still haunt locals trying to live with great apes.

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