The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is dedicated to the conservation and protection of the endangered mountain gorilla and its habitat in East Central Africa. Save the mountain gorillas.

Photograph Courtesy of Philip Greenspun Dian Fossey and the Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes She saw her gorillas being driven to extinction, and started a war... Another bothersome tourist, Dr. Louis Leakey grumbled to himself. The American woman wanted to tour Dr. Leakey's excavation at Olduvia. Leakey was by then one of the most well-known paleoanthropologists in the world. In 1959, with his ...