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After the Rwandan government closed Volcanoes National Park in 1998, there was little known about the fate of its most celebrated residents: the famed mountain gorillas. Joining Dr. Liz Williamson, head field researcher of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, this program investigates the plight of Fossey's gorillas at the end of the 20th century - and examines conservation efforts then planned for the 21st century.

"In this tale of the struggle for survival of the gorillas of the Virunta Mountains in Africa, award winning Magnum photographer Michael Nichols provides us with both beautiful and disturbing pictures of the fragile ecosystem there. These are the same animals immortalized by the anthropologist Dian Fossey, and the movie Gorillas in the Mist."--lensculture.com.

On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.

With more than a billion people, Africa might now be at its tipping point, but it is also the one continent that has not lost its biggest animals - despite the fact that mankind has lived here longer than anywhere else on the planet. As we continue to save Africa's most iconic species, what lessons learned from the rest of the world can we bring back to our ancestral homeland?

Overview: Early in her career in the late 1960s, Birute Galdikas was handpicked, along with Jane Goodall and the late Dian Fossey, by the renowned paleontologist Louis Leakey to go out into the world and study the great apes. She went on to dedicate her life to observing orangutans in their natural habitat and has become one of the world's leading authorities on orangutans. "I had reached the point where it was hard for me to see the differences between...

"Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another....

A personal, scientific account of the ground-breaking Project Koko discusses Patterson's controversial experimental program of teaching sign language to an ape.

A nature journalist uses a mix of reportage, natural history, and travelogue to embark on an often hazardous journey to witness the last great apes in their native habitats.

Documents the story of mid-19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who after three years in the equatorial wilderness of West Africa emerged with definitive proof of the existence of the mythical gorilla, only to be swept up by the heated debate about Darwin's theory of evolution.