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August 25, 2017

Getting ready for gorilla-naming celebration in Rwanda

Naming infant mountain gorillas has become an important annual nationwide tradition in Rwanda since 2004. The naming ceremony, called...

May 10, 2017

A message from Dr. Tara Stoinski, president and CEO/chief scientist, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund As a conservationist and...

December 9, 2016

A group of students in Bisate village, located in Rwanda near the mountains that are home to the mountain...

November 2, 2016

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announced today that its gorilla trackers based at the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda...

October 5, 2016

Harriet Damesek of Ormond Beach, Florida recently spent two days trekking to visit the mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National...

September 24, 2016

Today, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund celebrates the 49th anniversary of the founding of our Karisoke Research Center, by...

August 6, 2016

Fossey Fund staff are extremely saddened to report that one of the young mountain gorilla twins born to mother...

August 3, 2016

They can’t walk yet, but the mountain gorilla twins born this January in Rwanda are now able to stand...

June 23, 2016

A grant from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda has enabled the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund to expand its conservation...

June 15, 2016

As the mountain gorilla twins born in January approach their sixth month of life, their increasing size means that...

May 13, 2016

Two gorillas have been born recently in one of the groups monitored daily by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund...

November 30, 2015

November 30, 2015 Remembering Dian Fossey: 30 years later December 26 will mark the 30th anniversary of Dian Fossey’s...