Journal

The Border the Gorillas Ignore

Roughly a thousand mountain gorillas live across three countries: one at war and under an Ebola emergency, one that has just ended its own outbreak, and one selling the world’s most expensive wildlife permit. A thousand kilometers west, their lowland cousins can be visited in three more countries including the forest where Ebola once killed five thousand of them. What a visit in 2026 actually involves, what it costs and what it costs the animals.