Book Description
Describes an expedition into the field in southern Uganda to observe mountain gorillas in their native habitat.
Author : Ted Lewin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Describes an expedition into the field in southern Uganda to observe mountain gorillas in their native habitat.
Author : Charlotte Beauvoisin
Publisher : Horizon Guides
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Nature
ISBN :
There’s something undoubtedly fascinating about our giant cousins, the magnificent mountain gorillas of Sub-Saharan Africa. It’s partially down to their sheer size — you can’t fail to be impressed by a creature that colossal. But there’s something deeper, more endearing. The combination of awesome strength with profound gentleness; the depth of their social bonds; their harmony with their environment; their vulnerability and their struggle to survive. Perhaps our fascination comes from us seeing in them what we wish we saw in ourselves?
Author : Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1956763201
An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal. In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and an advocate for revolutionary integrated approaches to saving our planet. In an increasingly interconnected world, animal and human health alike depend on sustainable solutions and Dr. Gladys has developed an innovative approach to conservation among the endangered Mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and their human neighbors. Walking with Gorillas takes the reader on an incredible personal journey with Dr. Gladys, from her early days as a student in Uganda, enduring the assassination of her father during a military coup, to her veterinarian education in England to establishing the first veterinary department for the Ugandan government to founding one of the first organizations in the world that enables people to coexist with wildlife through improving the health and wellbeing of both. Her award-winning approach reduced the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on critically endangered mountain gorillas. In the face of discrimination and a male dominated world, one woman’s passion and determination to build a brighter future for the local wildlife and human community offers inspiration and insights into what is truly possible for our planet when we come together.
Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1603582444
2017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars--and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild. Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and The Good Good Pig--explores the science, wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.
Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
"When Gorilla goes walking, the neighbours laugh and stare at her tailless rump and her very proud air." Experience Cecilia and Gorilla's unique relationship through Nikki Grimes's lyrical poetry and Shane Evans's vibrant artwork. Readers will fall in love with Gorilla and wish they could bring her home with them!
Author : Dian Fossey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618083602
Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.
Author : Gene Eckhart
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801890116
Tucked into one of the most beautiful and conflicted regions of the world are the last of the mountain gorillas. These apes have survived centuries of human encroachment into their habitat and range and decades of intense conflict and violence. The remaining 720 mountain gorillas exist in a fragile habitat, nestled in an area torn by human interests and needs for land, water, and minerals. With captivating photography and the most recent scientific research, Mountain Gorillas takes you deep into the montane rain forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to reveal the complex story of the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Volcanos and Bwindi. Gene Eckhart and Annette Lanjouw reveal how humankind affects the gorillas and their habitat, detail the innovative conservation and education efforts undertaken by governments and nongovernmental organizations, and explain how ecotourism and other conservation-focused enterprises support efforts to protect the two mountain gorilla populations. This perfect blend of intimate photography, thought-provoking scholarship, and engaging stories demonstrates the inexorable ties among the animals, environment, and peoples of the region, and makes clear why the continued existence of the Virunga and Bwindi gorillas is so important. Mountain Gorillas features stunning photos and four appendices documenting key biological and ecological information, habitat vegetation, milestones in mountain gorilla conservation, and travel information.
Author : Derek Zobel
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600146058
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces gorillas to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
Author : Camilla De la Bédoyère
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Drawing on her previously unpublished letters, this deeply personal and illuminating portrait of preservationist Dian Fossey is accompanied by dazzling, full-color photographs by Campbell, who spent nearly four years making a visual journal of Fossey's work.
Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160358062X