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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet, humans have loved, sold, killed, even eaten gorillas. Dian Fossey's popularization of her field work with mountain gorillas in the 1970s "created this global constituency" of support for gorilla ...

Gorillas are known for their intimidating strength, massive size, and human-like behaviors. In fact, according to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Fossey Fund researchers in Rwanda and Congo have ...

In the mid-1960s, American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey started living in Rwanda ... She was buried next to her most beloved gorilla, Digit, who was beheaded by poachers ...

An Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, the US scientist who dedicated her life to studying and protecting the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Drama ...

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 ...