There’s much ado about bamboo
Bamboo is a special plant for gorillas, golden monkeys, and people too! At the Fossey Fund, we have been...
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Meet Maurice: Conservation Education Coordinator
The Fossey Fund has an extensive education program in Rwanda where we work, reaching children and adults at all...
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Gorilla forest is complex web of biodiversity
The Grauer’s gorillas the Fossey Fund protects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo live deep in primary forest, where...
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Why do gorillas gather around their dead? Three case studies
It is now known that many animals exhibit unique behaviors around same-species corpses, ranging from removal of the bodies...
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Women are gorilla trackers too!
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has a large team of trackers, anti-poachers and scientists protecting and studying the mountain...
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Gorilla females are key to male success!
After studying mountain gorillas for 52 years, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund scientists know that gorilla females usually move –...
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Gorilla Journal Newsletter March 2019
(Click on the image to download the gorilla journal.)
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Gorilla mothers: No need for help, thank you
Gorilla mothers have very strong bonds with their infants, and provide complete care for them during their first few...
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Episode Two: Male hierarchy and a gorilla group’s success
This is the second in a series of articles chronicling the lives of the gorillas in a legendary mountain...
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Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund breaks ground on a new campus for gorilla conservation, in partnership with the Ellen Fund
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is the world’s longest-running and largest organization dedicated solely to gorilla conservation, and has...
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Identifying individual golden monkeys in gorilla habitat
The Fossey Fund’s gorilla trackers know every individual gorilla that we track in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park every day....
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Celebrating first scientific publication by Fossey Fund Rwandan college student
Each year, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund hosts undergraduates from the University of Rwanda at our Karisoke Research Center,...
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Adopt a gorilla!
Just like our gorilla protection teams, you can help save gorillas every single day. Symbolic gorilla adoptions have a meaningful and immediate impact in the lives of the planet’s last wild gorillas and make great gifts! You can ensure gorillas are protected all day, every day by adopting a new family member today!