![]() Fossey’s “active conservation” included physical torture, psychological torture, and kidnapping of local people near her field site in Rwanda, as she enacted a neo-colonialist conservation program rooted in white supremacy. ![]() And Fossey’s untimely death in 1985 punctuated her story with an unsolved mystery that generates continued speculation.īut discussions of Fossey’s “controversial” methods typically gloss over their full extent. ![]() Decades after her death, the Oscar-nominated cinematic version of Gorillas in the Mist remains a classic. Her memoir inspired many aspiring primatologists, and I was one of them. The videos captured by National Geographic enchanted audiences and motivated them to care about mountain gorillas. ![]() Primatologist Dian Fossey has become a conservation legend. ![]()
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