Editor 's note : The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE , an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn , New York . VBS.TV is Vice 's broadband television network . The reports , which are produced solely by VICE , reflect a transparent approach to journalism , where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process . We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers . Bwindi Impenetrable Forest , Uganda ( VBS.TV ) -- Uganda has crept back into our consciousness lately with synchronized bomb attacks that took the lives of 76 people in the nation 's capital Kampala during the World Cup festivities . When we were last in Kampala , we set out to learn more about the desperate fight for the survival of mountain gorillas . With a dwindling population of 700 , they have been victims of poaching , disease , war , civil unrest , slaughter and displacement . Under pressure from rebel factions in Uganda and the DRC who massacred gorillas because the conservationists were `` getting on their nerves , '' our guide tracks the remaining apes -- by armpit stench and dung -- to keep tabs on their health . We traveled to the remote jungle area known as Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the southwestern part of Uganda , bordering with Rwanda and the DRC , areas plagued with dictatorships , genocide and decades of civil and national wars . Ten years earlier , eight park visitors had been abducted and then murdered by a group of Rwandan armed rebels in an effort to destabilize the region . The drive from Kampala was harrowing . Our driver sped and swerved obsessively , overtaking anyone in his path despite on-coming traffic . We witnessed three traffic accidents , two fatalities and an adventurous couple having sex in the middle of a dark mountain road after midnight . With four guards armed with machetes and rifles , two advance gorilla trackers , and our guide Levi we ventured into the dense tropical rainforest that is home to roughly half of the 700 remaining mountain gorillas in the world . Here we encountered the gentle beasts and found out more about their plight . See more of this story at VBS.TV .
Mountain gorillas victims of poaching , disease , war , slaughter , displacement . Comment: VBS.TV says gorillas have dwindled down to about 700 in the world .