Congo
Addressing health needs helps gorilla conservation
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund’s work protecting critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo takes place in remote forests, where many
April 6, 2023
Category: Helping Communities
Biodiversity
Students grow trees near gorilla habitat in Rwanda
In the Fossey Fund’s work with student nature clubs in schools near Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, we have found that growing and planting trees is
October 19, 2022
Education Programs
On World Teacher Day: Let us count the ways
As conservationists, scientists, trackers, educators, communicators and other staff here at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, we are all “teachers” in various ways, because building
October 5, 2022
Congo
Growing mushrooms can help people and gorillas
We know that for conservation to be successful it must also address the needs of the human communities that share the gorillas’ forest home. That’s
May 19, 2022
Education Programs
What do avocados and cabbages have in common with gorillas?
They’re both “helping people, saving gorillas” in Rwanda Our Nature Club student partners are at it again! This time, students from the Rwinzovu and Butaka
December 27, 2021
Biodiversity
Saving Water, Saving Gorillas
March 22 is World Water Day, an annual United Nations event started in 1993 to focus on the importance of freshwater. In 2021, the theme
March 17, 2021
Helping Communities
Nature Clubs Plant More Than 35,000 Tree Seedlings
The Fossey Fund is best known for our work to bring wild gorillas back from the brink of extinction. But many Fossey Fund initiatives go
February 23, 2021
Ellen Degeneres Campus
More than a building: How our new Ellen Campus is giving women “a say in their own destiny”
As we work to build our new Ellen DeGeneres Campus, we are measuring the project’s impact through our “5 Es”: education, emotion, environment, economy and
December 17, 2020
Congo
Building a Garden Out of Gorilla Poop
Not far from the village of Nkuba, in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas roam,
November 15, 2020
Helping Communities
Helping Communities: Providing Aid to the Gorilla Guardians
One of our four pillars of conservation is “Helping Communities,” which we accomplish through our livelihood, food security and education initiatives. When the COVID-19 pandemic
October 22, 2020
