The pioneering primatologist destroyed the myth of gorillas as savage brutes before being killed by human hands, 40 years ago this month.
Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...
On December 26, 1985, Dr. Dian Fossey was tragically murdered in her cabin deep within the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. On the 40th ...
Fossey was honored along with Bay Area literary figure Ina Donna Coolbrith. A poet, writer, librarian, and prominent figure in the literary community, Coolbrith was known as the “Sweet Singer of ...
LINCOLN, Neb. The state of Nebraska made and then abruptly took back a job offer to a man convicted of murdering Dian Fossey, the American wildlife researcher whose work in Africa was the subject of ...