This is the first in a series of articles, presented by the Fossey Fund’s Gorilla Program Senior Advisor Veronica Vecellio, highlighting the main mountain gorilla
One of the best things about protecting and studying mountain gorillas every day is that we sometimes get to see important and special occasions among
There’s nothing cuter than an infant gorilla – and nothing more important to the future of this endangered species. That helps explain why this is
Since one of our main goals at the Fossey Fund is to help students learn about conservation, we have many programs that aim to provide
Every year on World Gorilla Day, we spend time with our youngest conservationists, and this year was no exception. In fact, this year was even
Our trackers can be found traversing the rainforests of Volcanoes National Forest 365 days each year, monitoring gorilla families and destroying snares to ensure the
This September 24, we mark not just World Gorilla Day, but Kwita Izina, Rwanda’s annual gorilla naming ceremony. Kwita Izina, an initiative of the Rwandan
If you’ve been following us for long, you know we have an amazing collection of photographs—not just of gorillas, but of the many plants and
Scientists from around the world, including at the Fossey Fund, participated in this species-wide survey of parasite infections across the entire range of the mountain
Five decades ago Dian Fossey set up camp in the forests of Rwanda and began the critical scientific research and protection work for which the
