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. Dian Fossey
In the Virunga volcanoes of central Africa Dian Fossey discovered the gentlest of the great apes. She lived amongst the mountain gorillas for nearly 20 years and shamelessly defended them from poachers.
In Rwanda, she founded the Karisoke Research Centre (1967) to provide the worldís primary focus for mountain gorilla conservation and research.
Through the pages of National Geographic magazine and countless television appearances she focused world attention on the gorillasí plight. She began raising money to pay for anti-poaching, and in 1978 set up the first ranger patrols in Rwanda.
She was murdered by an unknown attacker in the early hours of December 27, 1985, in her cabin at Karisoke.
Her friend Alan Root, the wildlife filmmaker who introduced her to gorillas in 1967, recalled in Swara magazine:
ìAn occupational therapist with lung problems, a great fear of heights and no training in animal behaviour, Dian was hardly tailor-made for the job of following gorillas among the steep ravines of a 14,000-foot, rain-shrouded volcano. With only a two-day crash course on data collection from Jane Goodall to guide her, Dian recorded everything she saw, and from the beginning she saw clearly that gorillas were doomed unless something was done about the uncontrolled encroachment and poaching that was going on.
ìOver the next 13 years Dian collected a vast amount of data on mountain gorillas. Her work, and that of the co-workers who joined her in the later years, not only led to a greater understanding of gorillas, but to a world-wide concern for their safety.î
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