World Gorilla Day T-shirts have just dropped on our e-store! 🦍
Every T-shirt is made-to-order and supports our gorilla conservation work.
Multiple colors available! Order or learn more now:
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What is your favorite gorilla behavior?
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Happy World Ranger Day!
To celebrate with us, feel free to learn more about our longest-serving gorilla tracker: Fundi!
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Have you seen this *adorable* video?
This week, we shared a sweet clip of dominant silverback Dushishoze hugging infant Mugisha. Be sure to watch until the end for a little surprise!
📸 Gabriel Nyirijuru
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🎉 Big News! 🎉
The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is a 2025 Travelers' Choice Award Winner with Tripadvisor! Reviews from millions of Tripadvisor travelers place our campus in the top 10% worldwide.
We are grateful that our campus has had such an impact on visitors from all corners of the planet. 🌍
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💡Learn more about visiting our campus:
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Do you remember this adorable clip of Kwanda? 🥰 🦍
In this video, hear from the Fossey Fund’s own Gorilla Program Senior Advisor, Veronica Vecellio, where she’ll explain this fascinating (and cute 😍) behavior! 🦍🤗
📹 Original video of Kwanda captured by Jonas Antony & Emmanuel Izabayo
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Guess what? 🤔
Ubu's BACK! 😍 😮 😮
Last year, we released Uburinganire – or “Ubu” for short – as a special symbolic adoptee and to commemorate the birthday of Dian Fossey. Ubu is Dian’s birthday buddy – and today, he turns 2 years old! 💛
Get excited: UBU IS BACK! Whether or not you adopted Ubu or missed out on adopting last year, prepare for all brand-new pictures, videos and updates – direct from the field to YOU! 🦍
You can adopt Ubu TODAY until the end of January in honor of Dian's birthday. Learn more or adopt:
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Today, Jan. 16, Dian would have been 93 years old.
Dian Fossey dedicated her life to saving the mountain gorillas from extinction in Rwanda. Because of Dian, they are now the ONLY nonhuman great ape increasing in number.
This is a fragile conservation success: only about 1,100 mountain gorillas still remain on the planet. We work tirelessly every day to continue the brave work she began. We can't think of a better way to honor Dian than to contribute to gorilla conservation.
Will you do your part to save gorillas and remember Dian on her birthday? Consider making a donation to our boots-on-the-ground work today:
donate.gorillafund.org/page/65824/donate/1?ea.trac…
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The mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park have primate neighbors: the golden monkeys (and just like mountain gorillas, their infants are ADORABLE). 🐒
✨ Unlike gorillas, who breed year-round, golden monkeys are seasonal breeders.
✨ Golden monkey reproduction is dependent on the availability of nutrition, and in particular, bamboo.
✨ As part of our conservation efforts, we monitor the births of these incredible primates closely.
"The golden monkey birthing season is an amazing time, as we watch new mothers bond with their infants, while others without babies surround them and observe," says research assistant Alexandre Gategeko. "It’s a time of communal bonding."
✨ Learn more about how golden monkeys reproduce:
gorillafund.org/conservation/celebrating-monkey-da…
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The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa. We are committed to promoting continued research on their threatened ecosystems and education about their relevance to the world in which we live. In collaboration with government agencies and other international partners, we also provide assistance to local communities through education, health, training and economic development initiatives.
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