The life of conservationist Dian Fossey, who spent 20 years trying to save the mountain gorilla, is celebrated in a film that gets its backbone from a strong performance by Sigourney Weaver.

In 1988, Fossey’s best-selling book Gorillas In The Mist was made into a highly-rated movie depicting the daily lives of mountain gorillas as well as their tragic killing by the poachers ...

On an isolated mountainside in Rwanda, frightened cries cut through the early morning mist. As day broke on December 27, 1985, wildlife legend Dian Fossey was found dead by a machete attack.

Tara Stoinski takes KPRC 2 team on a tour of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund headquarters (KPRC/Click2Houston.com) She showed us maps of where the four species of gorillas in Africa live.

As the mist moves down over the valley beyond the edge of the winding mountain-side road, we remember Gorillas In The Mist. Dian Fossey's book-turned Academy award-winning film charted her gorilla ...

To this day, Fossey is best known as the subject of the 1988 film Gorillas In The Mist. Based on her own 1983 of the same name, the Michael Apted film depicts Fossey's work and, while it does ...

In Dian Fossey’s time, fewer than 300 mountain gorillas remained, but thanks to her stubborn determination and lasting legacy, those numbers are recovering.

Gorillas are Rwanda’s main attraction. Dian Fossey would hate that. A new $15 million gorilla museum celebrates Fossey’s legacy, but she never wanted to share the apes with the world ...

Dian Fossey aptly called them gorillas in the mist. But when the mist lifts, they are gorillas in the sun, doing what mountain gorillas do: eat, rest, eat some more and snuggle.

Initially founded by Fossey, whose life and ultimately death were portrayed in the movie “Gorillas in the Mist,” the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is considered the world’s largest and longest ...