Famous People & Pop Culture

In the briefing rooms at Bwindi's four trekking sectors, amid the newer faces of recently…

Frans Lanting is among the most influential wildlife photographers alive — his images of African…

Every few months, a video or photograph from a gorilla trekking encounter goes viral on…

In 1979, David Attenborough filmed a sequence for the BBC series Life on Earth that…

Jane Goodall is associated primarily with chimpanzees — her decades at Gombe Stream in Tanzania…

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is best known for his aerial photography project "Earth from Above"—a decades-long documentation…

Sir David Attenborough has filmed mountain gorillas multiple times across a career spanning seven decades,…

Birute Mary Galdikas is the least famous of the three women Louis Leakey sponsored to…

Biruté Mary Galdikas is the least famous of the three women Louis Leakey sponsored to…

Before Dian Fossey, before Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, before the contemporary era of habituated…

Jane Goodall did not study mountain gorillas—her life's work centred on the chimpanzees of Gombe…

Before Dian Fossey's murder in 1985 and the subsequent international attention that focused on gorilla…

Dian Fossey established what she called the Digit Fund in 1978, shortly after the killing…

Ian Redmond arrived in the Virunga Mountains in 1976 as a twenty-year-old biology graduate looking…

When Dian Fossey arrived in the Virunga Mountains in 1967 to begin her long-term study…

Before George Schaller, the mountain gorilla was a monster. After George Schaller, it was a…

In 1979, a BBC film crew accompanied David Attenborough into the Virunga Volcanoes to film…

Mountain gorillas have generated some of the most compelling wildlife news stories of the past…

Gorilla trekking in Uganda has attracted a remarkably diverse collection of famous visitors over the…

Before most people ever set eyes on a real gorilla—in a zoo, in a documentary,…

Jane Goodall arrived at Gombe Stream in Tanzania in 1960 with no formal scientific degree,…

Uganda has attracted remarkable people. Scientists who spent decades in its forests, explorers who mapped…

In 2008, a three-year-old female gorilla named Ntare died at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's…

Gorillas in the Mist, released in 1988 and starring Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey, is…