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In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas
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In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas Paperback - 2002

by Weber, Bill, Vedder, Amy

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  • Title In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas
  • Author Weber, Bill, Vedder, Amy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Simon & Schu
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date November 26, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # X09A-00895
  • ISBN 9780743200073 / 0743200071
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.44 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gorilla - Rwanda, Wildlife conservation - Rwanda
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001041166
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.884

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From the founders of the world-famous Mountain Gorilla Project, an empowering account of their efforts to save the mountain gorilla in Rwanda and how they succeeded--even in the midst of a horrendous civil war.

In 1978, when Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. When yet another slice of the Virunga Mountains was targeted for development, Weber and Vedder recognized that the gorillas were doomed unless something was done to save their land. Over Fossey's objections, they helped found the Mountain Gorilla Project. The MGP was designed to educate Rwandans about the gorillas and about the importance of conservation, while at the same time establishing an ecotourism project--one of the first anywhere in a rainforest--to bring desperately needed revenue to Rwanda.

In vivid detail, weber and Vedder describe their experiences getting to know entire families of gorillas, from powerful silverback patriarchs to helpless newborn infants. They tell us about the gorillas they recognized and came to know as individuals, stories both tragic and joyful. They describe a landscape that was heaven one day, green hell the next. And they tell of their discovery of the terrible and mysterious events surrounding Fossey's murder. They explain that the key to saving the mountain gorillas was helping the people of Rwanda--even in the face of a civil war--to share in the benefits of conservation.

Rich with details about the gorillas' lives, the realities of conservation, and portraits of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times, this is a riveting adventure story that is sure to take its place among the classic accounts of the world of nature.

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GO AHEAD. SIT NEXT TO HIM.

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About the author

Bill Weber has worked for 25 years in the field of international conservation. He lived in Africa for nine years, where he and his wife, Amy Vedder, helped to establish the famous Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda and several other park and forest protection initiatives across the Congo Basin. For the past six years, he has turned his attention to conservation issues in the U.S. As Director of North America Programs for the Wildlife Conservation Society, he oversees dozens of projects from Alaska to the Adirondacks, addressing issues from lynx and wolf recovery to fire ecology, ecotourism, and community-based conservation.

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