Dian fossey video biography

Dian Fossey first encountered gorillas aged thirty when she went on holiday to Africa. Hearing of gorillas in the mountains of Congo, she persuaded her guide to take her to meet Alan Root and his wife Joan, who were filming the gorillas. Initially reluctant, the Roots were persuaded by Fossey’s persistence to show her the gorillas and thereby changed the course of her life.

After returning to Kentucky, Fossey was awarded funding by National Geographic for the next and final eighteen years of her life, for the preservation and research of mountain gorillas.

The political turmoil of the Congo forced her into the mountains of Rwanda.

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Here she met the human love of her life, Bob Campbell, who was sent by National Geographic to photograph Fossey’s work. It took a year before the relationship changed to intimacy whilst her research made a remarkable breakthrough. With Campbell’s help she got physically and emotionally closer to the mountain gorilla Dian Fossey Biography & Gorillas: Conservation of Gorillas WUK