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Article: Great apes get new lease on life. (Mountain Gorilla Project)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- June 9, 1986
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Great apes get new lease on life
In death, American zoologist Dian Fossey may be doing more to save the rare mountain gorillas from extinction than she was able to accomplish in the last years of her troubled life.
When Fossey was savagely murdered last December, it seemed that the gorillas' great protector was gone and no one would care enough to continue her work. That is turning out to be false. Fossey's death has reunited conservation groups and galvanized Rwanda's government to take protective action. And, contrary to Fossey's beliefs, the key to survival of the great apes may well be tourists.
Fossey, who had lived alone here in the ...