5TF: Kwita Izina
Question 1 What is Kwita Izina? Kwita Izina is a naming ceremony for mountain gorilla infants born in the...
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5TF: Our Research Interns Answer YOUR Questions!-Part 2
Question 1 How do you know when gorillas are female or male? When gorillas are young (up to about...
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To Save Gorillas, We’re Studying…Birds
Mountain gorillas live high in the Virunga mountain range in east Africa. Their groups often travel to the highest...
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5TF: 5 Historic Gorillas
Historic Gorilla 1 – Poppy Before her disappearance and presumed death earlier this year, Poppy, at nearly 43 years...
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5TF: 5 Things About Gorilla Social Groups
Fact 1: Aside from a few exceptions, groups consist of more adult females than adult males. Most subspecies of...
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5TF: 5 Things About Biodiversity In Rwanda & Congo
Fact 1: Biodiversity is crucial in conserving any ecosystem to ensure natural sustainability. Biodiversity is a term that describes...
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5TF: Our Research Interns Answer YOUR Questions!
Question 1: In Bwindi, do gorillas and chimps ever interact? While we don’t work in Bwindi, other researchers have...
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Celebrating World Ranger Day with Fossey Fund gorilla trackers
Trackers and rangers are the heroes of gorilla conservation, navigating through dense and remote forests every day to find...
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5TF: 5 Ways Your Donations Impact Everything We Do Here At The Fossey Fund!
Fact 1: Individual donors like you make up the largest source of donations for the Fossey Fund. These donations...
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5TF: 5 Things About The History of Karisoke & Dian Fossey!
Fact 1: Karisoke was not Dian Fossey’s first research site. Dian Fossey first began her gorilla observations in 1966...
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5TF: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)!
Fact 1 Mountain gorillas live in the most extreme environment of any of the four gorilla subspecies. Mountain gorillas...
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Gorilla Journal Newsletter June 2019
(Click on the image to download the Gorilla Journal.)
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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!