Digit, an intimidating silverback and a Fossey ... NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE In April trackers with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International found Fasha, a juvenile, entangled in a snare.

Digit was a favorite among the habituated gorillas I was studying: In fact, I was unashamed to call him "my beloved Digit." And now, through our sorrow, anger welled up—rage against the poachers ...

Dian’s gorilla conservation efforts continue to this day. In 1992, the US branch of the Digit Fund became the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. Following the Rwandan genocide, Karisoke was ...

Few people sacrifice themselves as completely as Dian Fossey did for the mountain gorillas of Africa. She fought tirelessly to protect them from poachers, cattle herders, zoo kidnappers ...

“Growing up, I saw Gorillas in the Mist, so I knew about Dian Fossey,” Linsky says, “and Jane Goodall is just, like, a household name. [But] I didn’t even know about Dr. Galdikas until I ...

is a separate species from the mountain gorillas of Dian Fossey fame. Western lowland gorillas have shorter fur than their mountain cousins and often sport distinctive red patches on their foreheads.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Renowned primatologist Dian Fossey was one of three Bay Area ... for undertaking an extensive study of ...

Kwanda is about three years old and lives with his family in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, where he is carefully observed by mountain gorilla researchers, including the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel Gorillas have so thoroughly permeated popular culture—from King Kong to Dian Fossey’s friends to Nintendo’s ...

The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made ...