![]() ![]() ![]() This is where she established a research center funded by the National Geographic Society (NGS). Along with hiring Dian Fossey for studies on gorillas, he had similarly been responsible for Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees and Birute Galdika's work on orangutans (Hinde, 1978).ĭian Fossey lived and worked at the Karisoke research Center in Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcans) in Rwanda for a total of 18 years starting in 1967 (the year it was founded). In his life, Louis Leakey put a substantial amount of energy into promoting research on the behaviour of non-human primates. ![]() It was for this reason that he hired Dian Fossey to carry out research on the mountain gorillas in the Rwandan mountains. Louis Leakey, renowned archaeologist and anthropologist, who realized that the mountain gorillas were facing the threat of extinction in the very same century that they were discovered (Fossey, 1983). This paper presents the approach that Fossey used to increase mountain gorilla awareness: 'Active Conservation.' Virunga National Park As a researcher and advocate of the mountain gorilla, Dian Fossey dedicated her life and career to understanding, protecting, and assisting the mountain gorilla by bringing awareness to the complexity of this animal and to the habitat needs required to support it. ![]()
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