Up in the hills of southwest Uganda, there is a clear line where the farmlands end and

the forest begins.

The villagers who live on the outskirts of the forest call it windy.

In Ruchiga, it means a place of darkness.

Because it's like why is your inside is dark?

Because it's very thick dark forest.

The forest is deep and tangled.

The plant life twists around itself and tumbles into steep, impenetrable valleys.

Once you get up the main trail, you have to use a machete, a panga to get through and

it regenerates very, very quickly all the time.

It rains almost every day.

The air is thick and warm.

And inside every fold of the forest, there's life.

It's home to more than 340 bird species, more than 200 kinds of butterflies.

Red-tailed monkeys, you know, black and white colobas, you get to see blue monkeys as

forest elephants.

But the life the windy and impenetrable forest is most famous for is even rarer.

During deep inside the stark forest, are nearly 460 mountain gorillas.

That is nearly half the remaining population in the entire world.

I've seen them hundreds of times, but you know, hundreds of times we visited them, checked

on them.

Every time I learn something new, it's really amazing.

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