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Gorilla Affection
Today we are celebrating Valentine’s Day! 1: Gorillas create bonds through grooming Grooming is an excellent way for gorillas to ...
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Size Matters
Science confirms: Size matters for mountain gorillas For male mountain gorillas, one thing is certain – size matters, especially when ...
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Your Questions Answered
See which questions made the list this month! Question 1: Do gorillas use tools? Unlike chimpanzees, gorillas in the wild ...
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Great Apes
This week we’re covering the 5 different types of great apes! Great Ape 1: Gorilla (Gorilla sp.) Gorillas are closely ...
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Bringing Water to Bisate
When the pipes that delivered water to their villages began to fail, 4,489 people from six villages in Bisate, just ...
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This week we’re covering just a few of the Fossey Fund’s projects and programs that are focused on helping local ...
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Press Release – Social Distancing: Not Just for Humans
New study shows sick gorillas transmit illnesses to others nearby Coughs and colds spread quickly within wild mountain gorilla groups ...
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On World Gorilla Day, teaching children the importance of conservation
Every year on World Gorilla Day, we spend time with our youngest conservationists, and this year was no exception. In ...
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Press Release: On World Gorilla Day, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announces Moon Gorillas, a new collaboration for carbon-neutral PERL NFTs
In celebration of World Gorilla Day on September 24, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is announcing plans to launch an ...
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Fossey Fund Increases Antipoaching Patrols, Renovates Field Camps, with Support from IUCN
Our trackers can be found traversing the rainforests of Volcanoes National Forest 365 days each year, monitoring gorilla families and ...
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On World Photography Day, we’re celebrating our newest photographers
If you’ve been following us for long, you know we have an amazing collection of photographs—not just of gorillas, but ...
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Global Big Day- May 9th
On May 9, let’s count birds! The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund will be enthusiastically participating in Global Big Day on ...
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Earth Day in the DRC
Protecting the biodiversity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a global responsibility. Â You probably know the Fossey ...
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Your Questions Answered
Question 1 Tara Stoinski PhD, our President & CEO/Chief Scientific Office is answering a question from Shelby, “My career goal ...
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Hello and Goodbye!
It is a bittersweet moment whenever we have a staff transition, but we are happy to announce both the next ...
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Grauer’s Gorillas
Fact 1: Grauer’s gorillas are endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Unlike mountain gorillas, which are found in three ...
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It’s all happening at our Ellen Campus
So many exciting things are happening at our new Ellen DeGeneres Campus in Rwanda, which opened in February. We had ...
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World Ranger Day celebrates wildlife heroes
Rangers, trackers and others who protect wildlife every day in the field are the frontline heroes of conservation. Their work ...
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Providing literacy training for Congolese women
The area where we work saving gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is extremely remote and rural, ...
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Congratulations Dr. Deo: Rwandan scientist, conservationist, teacher
Our biodiversity program manager, Deogratias (Deo) Tuyisingize, started with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in 2004 as a student at ...
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Gorillas adjusting to silverback death
When silverback gorilla group leader Mafunzo died in April, Fossey Fund staff were concerned, because he was the only silverback ...
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Baobab Partners with Fossey Fund
New Travel Partnership Between The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and Baobab Expeditions Baobab Expeditions is proud to announce its distinct travel partnership with The ...
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Tracker Profile: Faustin Barabwiriza
February 2002Tracker Profile: Faustin Barabwiriza Faustin Barabwiriza was born in 1955, in Nyarugina, a sector of Kinigi Commune in Ruhengeri, at the bottom of the ...
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