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Locomotion
Distance: Due to the abundance of food sources in undisturbed habitat, and gorillas’ willingness to eat many different types of ...
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Gorilla Communication
Just like in humans, gorilla communication can occur through a variety of methods—body postures, facial expressions, vocalizations. Communicating Dominance Gorillas ...
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5TF: Your Questions Answered
Question 1: Do gorillas get bored? While humans tend to assign human emotions to non-human animals, it is actually very ...
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Gorilla Moms and Dads: Being Together
As we have all hunkered down together during these times, it is comforting to think about how gorillas live together ...
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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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New gorilla group forms
One of the best things about protecting and studying mountain gorillas every day is that we sometimes get to see ...
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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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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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Celebrating gorillas on World Environmental Day
All types of conservation action can help save gorillas, so the Fossey Fund works with people to help raise awareness ...
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Fossey Fund Hosts Eight Secondary School Interns in Nkuba
This October, the Fossey Fund invited eight secondary students to join us for a month-long internship at our Nkuba base ...
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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”: ...
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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 ...
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Campus News Update – November 18, 2020
Our Ellen Campus may not have opened yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start teaching people about conservation! When ...
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Violent Encounters Between Gorillas Slow Population Growth Rate
November 4, 2020 (ATLANTA) – As wildlife populations decline around the globe, understanding the natural and human-induced factors that influence ...
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Fossey Fund Expands Protection Work With Support from IUCN
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread in March, the Fossey Fund’s protection work in and around Rwanda’s Volcanoes ...
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In her words: From Dian Fossey’s gorilla journals
Dian Fossey began her pioneering studies and protection of Rwanda’s mountain gorillas in 1967, and was killed in her cabin ...
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Rwandan university students arrive at our Ellen campus
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has been hosting students from the University of Rwanda since 2003, to facilitate their senior ...
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For mountain gorillas, brothers and sisters are important
Most species of primates have somewhat limited social relationships with their siblings. Often, this is because either males or females ...
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Saving gorillas and helping people in Congo — Tracker Isoke
From hunter to gorilla protector From hunter to gorilla protector Our Rwanda-based communication assistant Cedric Ujeneza recently spent ...
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The mountain gorilla groups: A peek from the inside – Musilikale’s group
This is the second in a series of articles, presented by the Fossey Fund’s Gorilla Program Senior Advisor Veronica Vecellio, ...
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The mountain gorilla groups: A peek from the inside — Mutobo’s group
This is the first in a series of articles, presented by the Fossey Fund’s Gorilla Program Senior Advisor Veronica Vecellio, ...
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The Illegal Trafficking of Gorillas Continues in Congo
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is currently working in a coordinated effort with the Congolese nature conservation authorities (ICCN) to rescue three orphaned infant ...
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Ted Turner Makes Major Donation to Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
ATLANTA (GA) – Philanthropist and environmentalist Ted Turner announces tonight his contribution of $1million to the Atlanta-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International(Fossey Fund), geared toward ...
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First Rwandan appointed Karisoke director
First Rwandan Appointed Karisoke Director, Succeeding Dr. Katie Fawcett Tara Stoinski, Ph.D, New Vice President, Chief Scientist For the first time, a Rwandan national has ...
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Corning Glass Donates $25,000 to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
Funds to support ongoing research and preservation of the endangered species that inspired Corning’s industry-leading Gorilla® Glass technology. CORNING, N.Y. — Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) ...
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A Bright Future for Little Orphan Ihirwe
September 20, 2011 A Bright Future for Little Orphan Ihirwe One month ago, where the Virunga mountain range straddles the border of the Democratic Republic ...
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Fossey Fund Scientist Testifies for Great Ape Act Funding
Primatologist Tara Stoinski, Ph.D., the Dian Fossey Fund International’s Pat and Forest McGrath Chair of Research and Conservation, presented testimony to the U.S. House of ...
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