Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Name

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Herbarium Code

DFGFI

Current Status

Active

Correspondents

Marie Fidele Tuyisenge, Research Assistant, mtuyisenge@gorillafund.org

Contact

+250(0)785 784 878
Email: mtuyisenge@gorillafund.org

Address

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Herbarium
Karisoke Research Center
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
PO Box 105
Musanze, Northern Province
Rwanda

Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Flowering Plants, Ferns and Fern Allies, Fungi

Geography: Rwanda, Albertine Rift

Notes

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Herbarium is a unit of the Karisoke Research Center, a research institute and program of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda\'s Volcanoes National Park. It was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967 to study endangered mountain gorillas. Fossey located the camp in Rwanda\'s Virunga volcanic mountain range, between Mount Karisimbi and Mount Bisoke, and named it by combining the names of the two mountains. Today, Karisoke continues to upgrade its capacity for scientific research through new technology and new partnerships with local authorities and other conservation organizations. Recently, comedian Ellen DeGeneres plans to help build a permanent home in Rwanda for the work of the Fossey Fund to protect critically endangered mountain gorillas. The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Fossey Gorilla Fund is to be a permanent, specially designed facility for scientists who are helping to save mountain gorillas.

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