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Publisher
NCG Network US
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dian Fossey is widely celebrated for saving mountain gorillas from extinction. Her pioneering life was complex, and her enemies were rife. In 1985, Fossey was brutally slain in her remote mountain cabin. In the years since, one man has carried a heavy burden of injustice. The series is filled with Fossey's observations, recorded in her writings and brought to life by Sigourney Weaver." --
4) Dian Fossey
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam/Skylark
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Dian Fossey, a controversial conservationist wholived among the mountain gorillas of central Africa for almost twenty years, studied the nearly extinct gorilla population, andgave her life trying to save them.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dian Fossey was known as a highly respected primatologist--a scientist who studies apes and other primates--and a fiercely devoted champion of the safety and preservation of mountain gorillas. Fossey had made powerful enemies because of her opposition to poaching, and in 1985, she was found murdered in her cabin in Rwanda. The case remains unsolved to this day, but her intense love for this endangered species helped created a legacy that survives...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For Mireya Mayor, even as a young child whose house was filed with cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, a chicken, and a snapping turtle, nothing was quite wild enough. Older, she traded her pom-poms as a cheerleader for the National Football League for the swamps of the South American jungle. The first woman wildlife TV reporter for National Geographic, she traveled the world, but things still weren't quite wild enough. It was only when Mireya went to Madagascar...
