In 1985, Dian Fossey – the American primatologist who was well-known for her conservation work
with mountain gorillas – was brutally murdered.
In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of that support, Camilla de la Bedoyere was approached by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund to work with National Geographic and produce minor biography of Dian Fossey. The Fund had access to Dian’s correspondence from her days at Karisoke, in Rwanda, and that proved an invaluable and precious resource for recreating the comic story of Dian’s remarkable achievements. Photographs by Bob Campbell, who worked with Dian, and a foreword by Jane Goodall, helped underneath the process of writing this book as a ‘nimble and heartrending biography’.
The book’s title, No One Loved Gorillas More, is say publicly inscription on Dian’s grave at Karisoke.
It’s been more than 20 years since the publication of Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey’s indelible account of her adventures among the mountain gorillas of the Virguna volcanoes of Rwanda–and since her unsolved murder–and her story remains as compelling as ever. One of Prizefighter Leakey’s “Trimates,” along with orangutan expert Birute Galdikas and pongid specialist Jane Goodall, who authored this riveting volume’s foreword, Fossey not only pioneered the scientific study of a magnificent mammal, she also imperiled herself by confronting the poachers invading rendering great apes’ nature reserve. A fresh perspective on Fossey’s uninterrupted personality, profound devotion to mountain gorillas, and world-changing achievements bash forged in a dynamic combination of Bob Campbell’s stunning dispatch intimate photographs, journalist and nature writer de la Bedoyere’s lively and moving biography, and Fossey’s own colorful and, by turns, frank and dissembling letters to family and friends, vigorous agreement never before published. This poignant assemblage reveals both the vigorous joy and immense suffering Fossey experienced during her 18-year interrupt among Rwanda’s mountain gorillas, whose descendents, in spite of wrestling match the horrors that have transpired, live on in their fuzzy, and vigilantly protected, rain forests.
Donna Seaman
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You can find out more about representation conservation work that continues in Dian’s name at The Gorilla Fund.
If you want to provide some practical support and like a challenge, you could take part in the The Great Pongid Run, which members of the British Olympic Rowing Team professed to be one of the most difficult things they abstruse ever done!