The Gorilla’s Project’s primary aim is to create a feature film highlighting issues surrounding the preservation of gorillas.  We’re converting ideas from research papers and newspaper articles into a storytelling format. Instead of making a nature documentary, we intend to write a narrative film with interesting characters who get themselves into exciting adventures.  Making podcasts is a low-cost way to see which storie...

On July 24, 2022, Ruth Maclean and Dionne Searcey released an article in the New York Times that attracted a great deal of attention titled "Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: 'Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet'". The article's subtitle read: 'Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they're being auctioned off for drilling.' Accordin...

Is climate change increasing food competition between gorillas and chimpanzees?

On February 6 and December 11, 2019, researchers in Gabon's Loango National Park witnessed, for the first time, a coalitionary killing of gorillas by chimpanzees. This behavior is unprecedented in the history of primatology, forcing scientists to study what is happening to cause it. Lara Southern (Osnabrück University in Germany) witnessed both...